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Laine book case: court vacates stay on probe

By Our Special Correspondent

MUMBAI, MAY 6 . The Bombay High Court today allowed the police to investigate the FIR lodged against the U.S.-based James Laine who authored the book, Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India, and the Oxford Printing Press.

A Bench, comprising Justice S. Radhakrishna and Justice R.S. Mohite, vacated the stay on the probe and asked the police to submit a report in three months.

The Maharashtra Government assured the court that the police would not arrest the printer and publisher of the book. The Government declined to withdraw the FIR against the author and publishers for making alleged derogatory remarks against Chhatrapati Shivaji and his mother, Jijamata.

Counsel urged the court to allow him to withdraw from his affidavit the undertaking that he would ask the publishers to delete the controversial paragraph from the book.

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