A History Of India's Discontent With Charlie Hebdo

Today, Indian cops arrested a newspaper wallah because he sold something featuring the Charlie Hebdo cartoon. While France may have seen massive protests mourning the death of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, not many in India agree with the newspaper - and in fact are easy to trigger.

Mumbai: 5 February 2015

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Two Mumbai newspaper vendors have been arrested for selling the January 17 issue of the Urdu daily Avadhnama, which featured the cover of French magazine Charlie Hebdo with the Prophet Mohammed. Both legal experts and newspaper sellers are surprised how the police can hold vendors responsible for what a newspaper carries.

3 February 2015

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Shirin Dalvi, former editor of Urdu daily Avadhnama faced death threats for publishing some Charlie Hebdo cartoons after the attack on the Paris newspaper. "The accused, Shirin Dalvi, editor of an Urdu daily Avadhnama, has hurt the sentiments of the Muslim community and granting her anticipatory bail will create law and order problem," the police told the court. She was also arrested. Today, a Mumbai court extended her bail.

Chennai: January 27 2015

A Tamil newspaper received a letter threatening an attack similar to the one on the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, police said. "We have received the letter from the newspaper and a probe is on," a senior police official said. The letter, typed in English, says "Yesterday-Paris Charlie Hebdo, Tomorrow ¡ª Dinamalar." The words appear against the background of India's map.

Kashmir: January 23, 2015

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Kashmiri demonstrators threw stones at Indian police during a clash at a protest against the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Srinagar. Businesses and shops were closed for one day strike called by separatists and religious parties.

Kolkata: 22 January 2015

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Members of Bengal Imams Association protested and marched to the French Consulate to handover a memorandum seeking legal action against the magazine.

Hyderabad: 17 January 2015

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The Bhavaninagar police on Thursday registered a case against Zee News Limited for hurting the religious sentiments of the Muslim community by reportedly telecasting the Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad. In his complaint, Mohammed Irfan, a student of Islamic studies from Jamia Nizmia and a resident of Nasheman Nagar, said that the news channel and anchor Sudheer Chowdhary were well aware that the cartoon would offend religious feelings and termed this as a deliberate act to create law and order problems, likely to trigger a controversy.

"The video clip has also been uploaded on Zee News website and on YouTube. This means that they (Zee News Limited) want to continuously play with our feelings," Irfan told TOI. The channel had telecast the images on January 7 and again on January 13, he added.

With inputs from TNN | PTI | Huffington Post