JUDGMENT - DAS T.K. CHANDRASHEKHARA, J.:This petition arises out of process that was issued by the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, 5th Court at Dadar, Bombay in Case No. 64/S/91 against the petitioner. This process was issued by the Magistrate on a complaint filed by the first respondent alleging that the petitioner has committed an offence under section 153 read with section 114 of the Indian Penal Code.

2. The complainant before the Magistrate is a practising Advocate in Bombay. It is alleged in the complaint that he is worshipper of Chhatrapati Shivaji, who was considered as an incarnation of God, sent to the earth to preserve, protect and propagate the sanatan Hindu Dharma. It is alleged that the magazine India Today had organised a debate on the subject of 'secularlism' in 1991. In the said debate prominent personalities of different walks of life like M/s. M.J. Akbar, Bipin Chandra, Sitaram Yechuri, Jawed Habeeb, Swapan Dasgupta, Girilal Jain, Arun Jaitely, Ashish Nandy, Kushwant Singh, Jaswant Singh were participated. Petitioner Aroon Purie who had chaired the said debate in which each of the participants expressed their views about the subject 'securalism'. In the

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