New Delhi. The book for which Iran had issued a death sentence against famous writer Salman Rushdie has started being sold in India again after being banned for 36 years. Salman Rushdie’s controversial book ‘The Satanic Verses’ is being imported and sold at a book shop in Delhi. The book shop has given this information by posting on social media. Book shop owner Rajni Malhotra told news agency PTI that people are showing interest in buying Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. The book is selling well. A copy of The Satanic Verses is priced at Rs 1999.
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Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses was released in 1988. Muslims had raised a strong voice against this. Seeing the matter becoming tense, the then Rajiv Gandhi government at the Center banned The Satanic Verses in India on 5 October 1988. In November 2024, the Delhi High Court stopped hearing the petition in which the ban imposed on The Satanic Verses by the Rajiv Gandhi government was challenged. The court said that the authorities failed to submit the relevant notification regarding this ban. It seems that there is no such ban. Only after this, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses is being imported and sold.
It was because of The Satanic Verses that there was a fatal attack on Salman Rushdie in America in 2022.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the then Supreme Leader of Iran, had issued a fatwa of death against Salman Rushdie in the case of The Satanic Verses. After this, to save his life, Salman Rushdie had to live in hiding in Britain. In 1991, a Japanese translator who translated The Satanic Verses was murdered. Apart from this, there was also a fatal knife attack on Salman Rushdie in America in 2022. Salman Rushdie narrowly escaped this attack. There were several knife wounds on his face. From the spot, he had to be taken to the hospital by helicopter.
