Harvinder Chowdhury, 54-year-old Delhi-based Sikh lawyer, has submitted 60-odd gags to the Supreme Court, while seeking an unprecedented ban on jokes against her 20-million-strong community.
Ms Chowdhury, herself a lawyer for the past three decades, says that there are 5,000 websites which sell jokes projecting Sikhs as unintelligent, stupid, idiot, foolish naive, inept, not well versed with English language and as symbols of stupidity and foolishness.
These jokes, she says violate the fundamental right to life and to live with dignity, and so the sites carrying them should be banned.
The judges, have agreed to hear the rather dire plea.
A Sikh man calls up a doctor.
‘Doctor my wife is pregnant. She is having pain right now,’ he says.
‘Is this her first child,’ asks the doctor.
‘No, this is her husband speaking,’ answers the man.
This is one of the joke that the lawyer has submitted to the court.
