A show titled “Dastan-e-Karn — AZ Mahabharat” by Mahmood Farooqui, who specialises successful Dastangoi, scheduled connected Saturday evening astatine IIT-Bombay was cancelled aft a conception of students opposed the lawsuit and urged the medication to cancel it.
Farooqui, known for his Dastangoi performances, was invited to execute astatine IIT-Bombay arsenic a portion of Izhar 2024, a three-day lawsuit organised by Vaani, the Indian Languages Club astatine IIT-Bombay from October 25-27.
Just a fewer hours earlier the event, an informal radical from the field ‘IIT B for Bharat’, which has students, unit and alumni from the institute, issued a nationalist connection opposing Farooqui’s performance.
The statement, posted connected societal media, questioned the institute’s relation with Farooqui, who was convicted of rape successful 2016 by a little tribunal but was acquitted successful 2017 by the Delhi High Court, which was aboriginal upheld by the Supreme Court.