Crecoist Hemant Malviya questioned the Top Court’s command in the Madhya Pradesh High Court, which was approved by July 3, who refused to grant him a predictive bail. Photo: x/@hemantmalviya73
On Tuesday (September 2, 2025), the Supreme Court made an absolute provisional protection against arrest, which was previously awarded to cartoonist Hemant Malviya based in Indore in the case of a registered against him to share “inappropriate” cartoons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rashtriya Sangh).
The bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria destroyed his predictive bail after noticing that Malviya had followed his earlier direction to publish an apology for his handles on the social media.
“The petition is destroyed at an absolute order,” said the bench. She also provided freedom to the police Madhya Pradesh to try to cancel the relief unless Mr Malviya did not cooperate with the investigation.
Attorney Vrinda Grover, who appeared for Mr. Malviy, said that an apology had been commissioned and that the petitioner had not yet been called for questioning. Another general lawyer KM Nataraj, representing the state, said it would be convened only after the evidence was collected.
However, the bench rejected the request of a state advisor to direct the submission of an affidavit, which describes in detail the apology. “If the statement is made to the advice that the apology has been published on the petitioner’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram, we do not see any justifiable reason that such a statement would not believe,” the court noted in his order.
Complaint against him
Mr. Malviya was booked by the police Madhya Pradesh in May 2025 after the old cartoons date back to the pandemic year of 2021, which were rediscovered on the social media. The company was registered at the Lasudiya Police Station in Indore for complaints of a local lawyer and RSS employee Vinay Joshi, who claimed that cartoons and other contributions damaged religious feelings of Hindes and disturbed communal harmony. The complaint concerned a number of allegedly offensive contributions, including notes about Lord and the cartoons of Prime Minister Modi, RSS workers and others.
On July 3, 2025, the Madhya Pradesh High Court denied interim protection and noted that cartoons were a “deliberate and harmful attempt” to outrage religious feelings. “… on his face, the behavior of the applicant to depict RSS, a Hindu organization, along with the prime minister of the country in the above -mentioned cartoon, associated with its approval somewhat somewhat somewhat somewhat somewhat somewhat, because it is unnecessarily stretched by appointment in the comments is that it is marked. As with comments (1), and 1), and 1) (1), there is nothing, but it is known to be listed.
Mr. Malviya then turned to the Supreme Court, which granted him the interim protection against the coercive conduct on July 15, 2025. At the same time, the bench of judges Aravind Kumar and Sudhansh Dhulia also expressed concern about the spread of offensive content on the social media and emphasized the need for court intervention to limit this trend. During the hearing, Mr. Nataj placed on record films of controversial posts, one of which described the bench as “very, very offensive”.
The bench has extended the interim protection after Mr Malviya undertook to offer an apology and remove unwanted material from his social media accounts.
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Published – 2 September 2025 14:08
