Dr. Mirza Moziz Beg was granted anticipatory bail by a bench of Justices AS Bopanna and Dipankar Datta.
Dr. Mirza Moziz Beg, an assistant professor at Indore’s New Government Law College, was given anticipatory bail by the Supreme Court on Wednesday in connection with a First Information Report (FIR) filed against him over accusations of spreading anti-Indian and anti-Hindu propaganda.
The order granting Dr. Beg anticipatory bail was issued by a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and AS Bopanna.
ThePrint reported that since December 1, 2022, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Syayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has been protesting over a book they claim is “Hinduphobic” and is located in the library of the Shasakiya Navin Vidhi Mahavidyalaya (New Government Law College) in Indore.
The accusations caused the Principal, Professor Inamur Rehman, to resign, suspend faculty members, and open a police investigation. It involved the two books “Collective Violence and the Criminal Justice System” and “Women and Criminal Law,” both written by Dr. Farhat Khan.
In the former, a section on how Hindu women were treated made the claim that they served as lustful objects in a world dominated by men and that scriptures demonstrated their subservience to them.
In a tweet, the state’s minister of higher education announced the immediate suspension of Prof. Rehman and Assistant Prof. Dr. Mirza Beg. On the basis of a complaint from an LL.M. student at the college who had connections to the ABVP, a first information report (FIR) was filed.
In February, Dr. Beg petitioned the Supreme Court through attorney Aljo K. Joseph after the Madhya Pradesh High Court denied his request for anticipatory bail.
He asserted that the book was purchased by the college in 2014, a long time before he was hired on a contractual basis, and he refuted every accusation leveled against him.
Additionally, he told the court that the book had been covered in the Master’s curriculum for more than 18 years and had been taught to all postgraduates in Madhya Pradesh who had chosen to specialize in criminal law.
.Written By- Tushar Vashisth students of 3rd year BBA LLB at Chandigarh University
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