AHMEDABAD: A monthly catholic community magazine carrying an image of Jesus Christ holding a beer can in one hand and a cigarette in the other in its February issue caused outrage amongst subscribers of the journal.
The image was a tweaked version of the Christ and the sacred heart.
The magazine, Pavan Hruday Doot, is printed at the Gujarat Sahitya Prakash Society in Anand town, which is the publishing house of the catholic Jesuit community for South Asia. The magazine is an official mouthpiece of Catholics in Gujarat.
Three days ago, one of the subscribers in Vatva area;s Vatican Park society, Manoj Mackwan, felt outraged after seeing the picture on page 30 of the magazine and registered a police complaint with the Anand town police.
A case under section 295 and 153(3) of the IPC was registered by the police and is being investigated by Anand town police inspector PK Deora. (Agencies)
