According to LiveLaw.in, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by Wasim Rizvi, the former chairman of the UP Shia Wakf Board, seeking the removal of some verses from the Holy Qur'an, calling the petition “absolutely frivolous.”
The apex court also imposed Rs 50,000 as costs on Rizvi for filing the petition, the report said.
Rizvi had in March filed the petition seeking deletion of 26 verses of the Holy Scripture.
As per the LiveLaw report, a bench headed by Justice RF Nariman dismissed the writ petition observing, “this is an absolutely frivolous writ petition”.
“Are you pressing the petition? Are you seriously pressing the petition?”, Justice Nariman asked at the outset to which advocate R K Raizada, appearing for Rizvi replied that he was “confining the prayer to the regulation of Madrassa education”.
He submitted that the “literal interpretation of certain verses preached violence against non-believers, and therefore teaching them can lead to indoctrination of children”.
The bench however was not convinced to entertain the plea and dismissed it even as it impoised Rs 50,000 on Rizvi as costs for filing the petition, the report said.
