Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed all proceedings against M F Husain initiated by a Haridwar court till further orders.
A Bench headed by Justice B N Agrawal also issued notice to the complainant in the case against him in Haridwar on Husain's petition seeking transfer of the matter to Delhi.
The court of Special Judicial Magistrate K S Shukla in Haridwar ordered police to attach Husain's property after he repeatedly failed to respond to summons to appear before it, including at the last hearing of the matter on April 13.
Complainant advocate Arvind Shrivastava had filed a case against Husain in 2005 regarding two of his paintings Husain paintings titled Bharat Mata and Krishna for allegedly depicting Hindu goddesses in an obscene manner hurting the Hindu sentiments in the Haridwar district court in March 2006.
The case was transferred nine months later to the court of Magistrate Shukla, who issued a bailable warrant against the artist on January 2 after he failed to respond to summons.
Acting on the court's orders in Haridwar, police in Mumbai began the process of attaching the Husain’s house on Sunday.
It later turned out that the house did not belong to Husain but to his son.
(With agency inputs)
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