MP High Court Upholds FIR Against Neha Singh Rathore Over Controversial Cartoon

The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed a petition from folk singer Neha Singh Rathore seeking to quash an FIR against her. The FIR, filed on July 9 last year, was over a social media cartoon she shared. The court ruled that the cartoon disrupted harmony and provoked enmity.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has rejected folk singer Neha Singh Rathore's plea to quash an FIR lodged against her for sharing a controversial cartoon.

The FIR, filed on July 9 last year in Chhatarpur, concerned a cartoon showing a half-naked person urinating on another, with a khaki half pant and a person in a black cap and white shirt also depicted.

Justice GS Ahluwalia, in his order of May 15, stated that the cartoon was not an exercise of free speech as it aimed to disrupt harmony and provoke enmity. Rathore's addition of a particular dress in the cartoon suggested an intent to indict individuals of a specific ideology, which the court found unacceptable.

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