A plea was filed in a city court seeking to prosecute an art gallery for displaying two paintings by Husain featuring Hindu deities Hanuman and Ganesh.
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The Delhi Art Gallery (DAG) told a city court on Friday that the claim about paintings by late M.F. Husain hurting religious beliefs could not be seen “as concerns of the whole community”. DAG made the submission in response to a plea by an advocate seeking to prosecute the gallery for displaying two paintings by Husain featuring Hindu deities Hanuman and Ganesh.

The advocate filed the plea in the sessions court after a magistrate court, on January 20, ordered the seizure of the paintings but refused to order an FIR. DAG told the court that the paintings were displayed for a month and viewed by thousands of visitors.