Not free to caricature ISIS

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/12/2015

Offices of the Lokmat newspaper across Maharashtra were attacked for a cartoon in the paper's supplement which picturised  funding for ISIS as a piggy bank. DNA reports that the article titled 'ISIS cha Paisa' (ISIS' money) and the cartoon irked members of the Muslim community and hundreds of them in Dhule, Nandurbar, Malegaon and other parts of the state staged protests. While an FIR was registered against the cartoonist and the editor of the paper, the latter apologised and promised action against those responsible for its publication.