India drops 36-year ban on Rushdie book

In 1988, India became the first country to impose a ban on Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" for importation. However, due to a lack of evidence and records of the original ban, the Delhi High Court has quashed the ban five years after a reader, Sandipan Khan, brought the case to light in 2019. This decision makes India's ban on "The Satanic Verses" the first of its kind to be overturned.