Mumbai Police ask USA blog to remove cartoons
By Bala Shah

US-based The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse collects and analyzes legal complaints about online activity, helping net users to know their rights and understand the law.  The aim of this exercise is to stop unwarranted legal threats.  Chilling Effects is supported by EFF, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford and other elite institutes.

Chilling Effects is a powerful moral voice in USA.

The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse has published a Mumbai police email to a US-based American blogger asking him to remove cartoons which would be offensive to India-based Muslims.

The Chilling Effects website has published a letter from a Senior Inspector of Police, Cyber Crime Investigation Cell, Mumbai to American blog musing-minds.com which reads in part (Techgoss has not edited the letter in any shape or form)

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Re: (Very Urgent) Block / delete suspected links about Muslim communities....

Dear Sir,

This office is enquiring a complaint wherein cartoon articles on Allah and Islamic religious personalities for eg. Mohammed and wife Aisha are created and posted. They are making insulting remarks against Muslim prophet and other personalities of Muslim communities. You are requested to delete/remove block below mentioned suspected and malicious link and articles on your websites.
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The American blog refused to take down the cartoons and forwarded the Mumbai police email to The Chilling Effects.

Indians who follow the great religions of Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism and others hold their Gods and Gurus greater than anything in the mortal world.  And they would take every step permissible under law to protect their religious beliefs and feelings.

But why would any Indian police department think that an email sent to America would be enough for a blogger to take down a post?