Minority panel seeks action against Santa-Banta joke book

The group did not mind the use of names Santa-Banta, but it found the picture of a Sikh on the cover, and explicit reference to the community in some of the jokes very galling, Minority Commission’s vice chairman Abraham Mathai told reporters. The memorandum presented by the group to the commission says that the booklet “must be considered racist”.

The commission has now written to the Police Commissioner “to explore the possibility of taking action against the publisher for intentionally outraging religious feelings of a community,” Mathai said.