A court has issued an arrest warrant for M.F. Husain, India's best-known artist, after he failed to appear in a case related to his depiction of a nude "Mother India", a report said Thursday.
An activist in the city of Indore, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, had filed a case there against the artist, saying that his painting offended the sentiments of Hindus, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
The artist's lawyers had asked for the case to be moved to the capital New Delhi, expressing fears about the painter's safety in the central state.
A month ago, a hard-line Hindu group offered an 11.5-million-dollar reward for the murder of the controversial artist. Right-wing Hindu outfits regularly target the 90-year-old Husain for drawing their gods and goddesses in the nude.
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