Bans & Legal Battles
During Nizam Regime in British India, Nizam banned Satyarth Prakash in its Territories. Several Groups of Arya Samaj Followers from different part of world reached there and performed Satyagrah. All of these were arrested and put into the Jail. They were brutally torchured there. Due to the atrocities in Jails more than 100 Satyagrahis died in Jail and after release. As a result of Satyagrah the Ban was lifted by Nizam.
In 2008 two Indian Muslims, Usman Ghani and Mohammad Khalil Khan of Sadar Bazar, Delhi, following the fatwa of Mufti Mukarram Ahmed, the Imam of Fatehpuri Masjid in Delhi, urged the Delhi High Court to ban the Satyarth Prakash. However, the court dismissed the petition and commented "A suit by Hindus against the Quran or by Muslims against Gita or Satyarth Prakash claiming relief... are in fact, meant to play mischief in the society."
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