Chandigarh: The Haryana government has decided to confiscate every copy of a book called Mahatma Gandhi a Curse for Bharat, written by Anand Parkash Madan and published in English and Hindi with immediate effect.
Stating this here today, an official spokesman said that the decision to confiscate the book had been taken because after carefully going through the book it was found that it contained objectionable derogatory remarks against the Father of the Nation and tended to promote feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different communities.
The government after going through the book concluded that it contained "objectionable and derogatory" remarks against Mahatma Gandhi and "tends to promote feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different communities," the spokesman said.
The state government found the publication an offence and under sub section (1) of section 95 of the Criminal Procedure Code 1973, decided that every copy of the book in Haryana be confiscated.
A case will also be registered against the writer soon, the spokesman added.
In the book, the word Mahatma is defaced by a red line cutting right through the word to show Madan did not agree with the appellation given to Gandhi by Rabindranath Tagore,
sources said.
Gandhi is portrayed as anti-Hindu in the book, the sources said.
The officials said that the book was banned following complaints from certain people against it.
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