An additional district and sessions judge on Tuesday adjourned, for June 14, the hearing of a petition that seeks registration of a case against 14 people for publishing an art journal that “promotes homosexuality and mocks religious values”.
The respondents include the publishers, the editorial board and the creative team of Sohbet, an art journal published by jointly by the National College of Arts and One Nine Two (Pvt) Ltd.
Judge Sajjad Ahmed adjourned the proceedings at the request of the respondents’ counsel.
At the last hearing, the judge had sought comments from the Old Anarkali SHO. However, he did not file a reply.
The judge, while adjourning the case, directed the SHO to file comments by the next hearing. Advocate Abid Ali has filed the petition through his lawyer Mumtaz Ahmed Mangat.
Ali said that he had recently come across the third issue of the journal which, he said, had prints of nude paintings and an article that promoted obscenity and homosexuality.
Published In The Express Tribune, June 13th, 2012.
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