Author: Reuters
Publication: The Financial Express
Date: April 21, 2005
URL: http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=88559
The High Court in New Delhi has
fined two men 10,000 rupees for legally challenging the mainly Hindu country's
official three days of mourning for the death of Pope John Paul, a newspaper
reported on Thursday.
The court said the petition urging
the government not to declare official mourning for people "less significant
for our country" and complaining of lost working days was a publicity-seeking
"abuse of process".
It was not clear if the two men,
one of them a college lecturer, must pay 10,000 rupees each or the combined
amount together.