Sanal Edamaruku, President of the Rationalist International in India got wind of a "Miracle" reported by one of the local Catholic churches in Mumbai, whereby water was found to drip from the feet of a statue of Jesus. The source of the "miracle water?
A leaky drain.
The churches reaction? First they threatened to get him charged with blasphemy if he didn't retract his statements about the source of the "miracle water" then they went right ahead and
did just that.
When they saw Sanal refused to bow to their demands, they threatened to file a blasphemy case against him. And they did.
Yesterday (10th April,2012) Sanal received a phone call from a Police official of Juhu Police Station in Mumbai directing him to come to the said police station to face the charges and get arrested. He also said that FIRs have also been filed in Andheri and some other police stations u/s 295 of Indian Penal Code on the allegations of hurting the religious sentiments of a particular community. Mumbai police has announced that they were out to arrest him. It is apprehended that he can be arrested any moment.
