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List of Incidents in Maharashtra -> Police actions -> 2010
Police withdraw criminal complaint against author
Ref: http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_police-close-shroff-s-case_1338558
Mumbai, Maharashtra

Mumbai police closed the criminal complaint against Murzban Shroff , author of a book of short stories �Breathless in Bombay�.

Police, who filed an FIR in February 2009 under Section 153 B of the IPC for using the word �ghati�, in the story �This House of Mine�, had acted on a complaint filed by Mumbai resident Vijay Murdas.

The latter said that the use of the word to described Maharashtrians was intentionally used to incite feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will.