PTI

MUMBAI, Mar 11: A Sikh organisation here has objected strongly to the contents of a recently released book on jokes prompting the Maharashtra Minorities Commission to write to police seeking action against the publisher.

Sikh Media and Culture Watch approached the Commission recently with a complaint that a Santa-Banta SMS Jokes booklet, brought out by Ideas publishing house, explicitly refers to the community and is 'deeply humiliating.'

The group did not mind the use of names Santa-Banta, but it found the picture of a Sikh on the cover, and explicit reference to the community in some of the jokes very galling, Minority Commission's vice chairman Abraham Mathai said.

The memorandum presented by the group to the commission says that the booklet 'must be considered racist'.

The commission has now written to the Police Commissioner "to explore the possibility of taking action against the publisher for intentionally outraging religious feelings of a community," Mathai said.