{"id":231913,"date":"2020-07-08T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=231913"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T04:48:35","slug":"sc-extends-stay-on-coercive-action-against-amish-devgan-for-remarks-on-sufi-saint-khwaja-moinuddin-chisti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/07\/08\/sc-extends-stay-on-coercive-action-against-amish-devgan-for-remarks-on-sufi-saint-khwaja-moinuddin-chisti\/","title":{"rendered":"SC extends stay on coercive action against Amish Devgan for remarks on Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supreme Court:<\/strong> The bench of AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari, JJ has extended it&#8217;s order directing no coercive action to be taken against TV news anchor Amish Devgan in multiple FIRs lodged in several states over his alleged defamatory statements against Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti during a News Debate.\u00a0The Court had, earlier, granted stay against arrest of Amish Devgan on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist had, in his News Show called \u201cAar Paar\u201d dated 15.06.2020 aired at around 7:30 p.m, used the term Lootera Chisti, inviting reactions from the Muslim community. He, however, later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AMISHDEVGAN\/status\/1272963718322827268\">tweeted an apology<\/a>\u00a0along with a clarification.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-231453\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled.png?resize=457%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled.png?resize=60%2C34&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled.png?w=1152&amp;ssl=1 1152w\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"258\" data-attachment-id=\"231453\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/06\/26\/stay-on-coercive-action-against-amish-devgan-for-remarks-on-sufi-saint-khwaja-moinuddin-chisti\/untitled-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled.png?fit=1152%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1152,648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Untitled\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled.png?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Untitled.png?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Amish Devgan v. Union of India, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/KsH10RMv\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine SC 560<\/b><\/a> , order dated 08.07.2020]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court: The bench of AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari, JJ has extended it&#8217;s order directing no coercive action to be taken <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":154914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[42185,41076,42404],"class_list":["post-231913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-supremecourt","tag-amish-devgan","tag-hurting-religious-sentiments","tag-khwaja-moinuddin-chisti"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - 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