India Party Leader To Appear On Charges of Depicting Herself As Goddess Durga

The Times of India today reports that a court in the city of Muzaffarpur has ordered India National Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi to appear on charges that she hurt religious sentiments by depicting herself as the goddess Durga on a party poster in 2007. Two other Party officials have also been ordered to appear in court the same day. A similar complaint has already been dismissed by another court in 2008.