1. The accused in C.P.No.37/2010 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-III, is the petitioner herein. Petitioner is the Managing Director of a publication firm by name New Jyothi Publications. He was given contract for the publication work of the text book for Class-2 for CBSE English Medium for the academic year 2010-11. Accordingly, he published a syllabus book “Stepping Stones Part-II”. This book was divided into four parts namely English, Mathematics, Information Studies and General Knowledge. In the General Knowledge section, in Unit 18, towards the chapter Religious Leaders, the pictures of world famous religious leaders such as Buddha, Sankaracharya, Jesus Christ, Guru Nanak, Prophet Mohammed and Vardhamana Mahaveer were given. On the left side is a short description of the religious leaders and on the right side of their pictures. Item No.5 in the religious leaders, the picture of Prophet Mohammed was given with a description that he is the founder of Islam and Koran is the holy book of Islam. That portion of the book containing the picture is produced as Annexure-A.

2. On seeing the publication, certain fundamentalists belonging to the organiz