Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi’s poem on social media not communal: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday prima facie observed that a poem uploaded by Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi on social media was neither anti-religious nor anti-national, telling Gujarat police that it was expected to understand freedom of speech and expression 75 years after the adoption of the Constitution.

Pratapgarhi, also a poet, had moved the court seeking the quashing of the criminal cases lodged against him in Gujarat for uploading the poem “Ae khoon ke pyase baat suno (You blood-thirsty people, listen up)”. He has been booked for promoting communal disharmony.