Stop release of ‘Muhammad, the Messenger of God’ movie: Maha HM urges Centre

New Delhi: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has urged the Centre to stop the release of the film, “Muhammad: The Messenger of God”.

He also a letter to Centre in this regard, requesting the latter to block/suspend digital platform where the movie is slated to release.

The movie is scheduled to release on July 21 on a digital platform.

Raza Academy demanded ban, termed movie blasphemous

Earlier, Raza Academy wrote to Deshmukh stating that the movie is completely “blasphemous”.

The Academy stated that ever since the advertisement was published there has been an uproar in the community and claimed they received hundreds of calls to get the film banned.