HC allows Islamic scholar to hold meetings in Mumbai

The Bombay High Court has granted conditional permission to Pakistani-born Canadian Islamic scholar Maulana Tahirul Qadri to hold public meetings in the city, an official said Thursday. Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice P.D. Kode directed that the maulana must restrict his speeches only to spiritual and religious matters and not digress to any other controversial issue, said Imtiyaz Patel, counsel for Raza Academy, a group of Muslim scholars. Raza Academy filed a public interest litigation in the court Wednesday challenging Qadri's plans to address two major public meetings in Mumbai, contending that his speeches

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