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The cover story in Tehelka's latest issue has earned the ire of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) with the latter submitting a complaint against the magazine with the Shivaji Park Police station in Mumbai on Saturday.
Tehelka's cover story titled "Who is the biggest terrorist of them all...?" has the picture of the late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray along side Yakub Memon, Dawood Ibrahim and Bhindranwale.
Based on a complaint by Bala Nandgaonkar, a station diary entry has been made and the MNS has sought an FIR againt the Tehelka reporter for hurting their sentiments, states a DNA report.
The Mumbai police is reportedly looking into the legal aspects of the case and contemplating action.
Part of the Tehelka report by Mathew Samuel reads, "One example of this anti-minority orientation of the Indian State are the double standards applied to Yakub and the other accused in the Bombay blasts case, on the one hand, and the late Bal Thackeray and his Shiv Sainiks who were indicted by the Justice BN Srikrishna Commission for orchestrating the anti-Muslim violence that preceded the bombings, on the other. Yakub’s hanging juxtaposed with the State funeral by the erstwhile Congress-led UPA government for the Shiv Sena supremo is a powerful emblem of this discriminatory and prejudiced understanding that seriously impairs India’s fight against terror."