Varun Grover, Vir Das rally behind comedian arrested for his remarks

Several comedians including Varun Grover Vir Das and Rohan Joshi have criticised the arrest of standup comic Munawar Faruqui a day after he was held for alleged indecent remarks made against Hindu deities and Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a show in Indore Madhya PradeshFaruqui a comedian from Gujarat was arrested along with four others on Saturday after the son of a BJP MLA complained against himA local court later rejected their bail pleas and sent them in judicial custodyGrover took to Instagram and alleged that Faruqui was beaten upThe Sacred Games writer shared a video where the comedian is trying to reason with Eklavya Singh Gaur son of local BJP MLA Malini Laxman Singh Gaur who had filed the complaintA fellow Indian a fellow comedian is in jail and got beaten up by a mob because of the words he uttered Here hersquos trying to logically calmly present his case but our systems now just want to brutally silence every voiceThey donrsquot want to hear they donrsquot want to even argue ndash they want to simply erase every shred of individual thought every iota of reason And we the people of the greatest civilization of earth are ok with it Grover wroteDas took to Twitter and wrote that it is futile to stop humour and to try and control it You canrsquot stop jokes and laughter Not because comedians are performing it but because people need to laugh Harder you try the more yoursquore going to be laughed at now and by history Anyone who has ever tried to control humour now has a category of jokes devoted to them Das tweetedYou cant stop jokes and laughter Not because comedians are performing it but because people need to laugh Harder you try the more youre going to be laughed at now and by history Anyone who has ever tried to control humour now has a category of jokes devoted to themmdash Vir Das thevirdas January 3 2021He also posted screenshot of Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos 2017 tweet when he talked about the importance of humourI think we need more satire and humour Humour brings happiness in our lives Humour is the best healer the prime minister had said in the tweetDas captioned the image Irsquom just going to leave this here According to Gaur he and his associates had gone to watch the show and when they heard the indecent comments they forced the organisers to stop the programmeAs per the complaint indecent remarks were passed against Hindu gods and goddesses and the Union home minister during the show incharge of Tukoganj police station Kamlesh Sharma saidComedian Rohan Joshi shared Faruquirsquos video where he is trying to reason with those offended with his jokesTurns out now you can just assault people while theyrsquore doing their job and the cops will take lsquothemrsquo to the police station Joshi captioned the videoComedian Kaneez Surka and Abish Mathew also shared the clip of Faruqui on InstagramWatch this thatrsquos all and then share it Surka wrote While Mathew added Seven minutes of munawarfaruqui trying to reason but stillhellipHigh risk individuals to be vaccinated first So comedians must be up there on the list wrote comic Neeti Palta alluding to the incident in a Facebook post as India approved Oxfordrsquos and Bharat Biotechrsquos COVID19 vaccines for restricted emergency use on SundayOn Saturday Chief Judicial Magistrate CJM Aman Singh Bhuria refused to grant bail to Faruqui and other four and remanded them in judicial custody till January 13This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever