Dhoni's 'cover' drive

IN Media Watch Briefs | 05/09/2016

On Monday the Supreme Court threw out criminal charges against cricketer M.S. Dhoni who had been accused of having hurt religious sentiments when Business Today magazine depicted him as Lord Vishnu on its cover in April 2013. NDTV Sports reports that the magazine's cover, headlined "The God of Big Deals" showed Dhoni as a many-armed Vishnu, holding among things, a shoe. A case against Dhoni, the publisher and the editor of the magazine had been filed in Bengaluru, charging them with having slighted the Hindu religion. There's no news yet on whether or not the editor and the publisher have been let off the hook too.

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