Jain Muni Sagar Comment Controversy Tehseen Poonawalla Vishal Dadalani get relief Supreme Court remove 10 lakh Rupees compensation ann

Political activist Tehsin Poonawala and musician Vishal Dadlani have got a big relief from the Supreme Court in the case of comment on Jain monk Tarun Sagar. The Supreme Court has abolished the fine of Rs 10 lakh lakh on both of them by Punjab-Haryana High Court. The Supreme Court has made important comments, saying that the work of the courts is not ‘moral policing’.

In 2016, Jain Muni was invited to the Haryana Legislative Assembly. His discourse was held there. Tahsin Poonawala and Vishal Dadlani had strongly criticized it on social media. An FIR was lodged in Ambala, stating the comments made by both as to hurt the sentiments of the Jain community and to spread communal disharmony.

Poonawala and Dadlani filed a petition in the High Court to cancel the FIR and stop the arrest. In the judgment in 2019, the High Court admitted that the statements of both of them do not cause sections 153A (spreading disharmony in society) and 295A (hurting religious sentiments). The High Court also cited the Fundamental Rights of freedom of expression (Article 19A) in its judgment. Based on all these things, the High Court canceled the FIR.

Despite cancellation of the FIR, the High Court fined both of them Rs 10 lakh for indecent remarks making fun of a famous saint. The High Court said that Jain monk Tarun Sagar’s contribution to the society is not as much as Poonawala and Dudlani. The High Court said that it is imposing this penalty so that in future, both the petitioners avoid saying that a saint mocking.

The Supreme Court had imposed an interim stay on the order of the High Court in 2019 itself. Now the bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjwal Bhuiyan has canceled the order of the High Court. The judges have said that when the High Court could not find a crime case against both, there was no need to take further action. The High Court issued an order without issuing notice to the concerned parties, it was also wrong.

Keep in mind that after seeing the response of the society on his statement, Vishal Dadlani had apologized to public apology. He personally also regretted his statement by meeting Jain monk Tarun Sagar. Muni had forgiven both of them on his behalf, but by then a person had registered an FIR in Ambala. Now the final settlement of that case has been done.

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