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Katju issued notice for 'Indians are idiots'
remark
Monday December 10, 2012 10:38:56 AM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Two students
from Lucknow have sent a legal notice to Press Council of India
chairperson Justice Markandey Katju for his comment at a seminar
last week that "90% of Indians were idiots."
The notice to Katju was sent by law student Tanaya Thakur and her
brother, Class XI student Aditya Thakur.
Both said they found the comments hurtful: "We are deeply hurt and
humiliated by Justice Katju's words," the duo said Monday, adding
that Justice Katju's statements "would depreciate the reputation
of India and its citizens".
"A person of Justice Katju's stature should have deliberated on
the implications of his statement," they told IANS, and sought a
public apology from the former Supreme Court judge.
The students said that if a public apology was not forthcoming,
they would move the court in a month's time.
At a seminar in New Delhi last week, Justice Katju had claimed
that at least 90 percent of Indians are "idiots", easily be misled
by mischievous elements in the name of religion.
"I say ninety percent of Indians are idiots. You people don't have
brains in your heads... It is so easy to take you for a ride," he
was quoted as saying at the seminar.
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