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Religion can’t bar a person from rendering own version of it: SC
What has happened?
It is a violation of secularism for a religion to bar a person from writing a book about it or portraying it through a painting, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud orally observed on Monday.
Court observed
- A religion cannot be adamant that its sole portrayal should be confined to just one “book.”
- It cannot say that others are not free to sketch or render their version or ideas about the religion
- Such a bar is just not enforceable
- Any injunction [on the film] will be slightly stretching the constitutional principles
Background
- A plea by Sikhism’s highest religious bodies to stop the release of the National Award-winning and Censor Board-certified movie Nanak Shah Fakir for having a human characterise Guru Nanak
- The film won the National Award for promoting national integrity.
