A press statement condemning the Sec 377 judgment was issued by Javed Anand of Muslims for Secular Democracy and Hasina Khan of Muslim Women's Rights Network in Mumbai last week. While it got published in the TOI and DNA, this was the response from Mumbai's Urdu Times: "Salaam! Sorry. Urdu Times does not have the policy to print your news, deeply regret." The Urdu newspaper Inquilab did however carry it.