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NEW DELHI, INDIA, FEBRUARY 5, 2002: Archies Greetings and Gifts Ltd. has filed a suit in the Delhi High Court for a permanent injunction to restrain the Shiv Sena and some other organizations from “interfering in the Valentine’s Day celebrations and sales promotions.” Justice Sharda Aggarwan on Tuesday issued notices to the Shiv Sena and other Hindu organizations including the VHP and Bajrang Dal, and also the Commissioner of Delhi Police. The Archies petition accuses the Shiv Sena, VHP and Bajrang Dal of playing moral police and threatening the company and the public against celebrating Valentine’s Day. Archies states these organizations have warned of “dire consequences, including physical harm” and that its right to conduct business cannot be restricted by these organizations. Archies has sought an injunction to restrain these organizations from “holding violent demonstrations, shouting vulgar slogans, intimidating employees and general public” at its establishments and obstructing “the ingress and egress of employees, customers and general public and using any violent means or assaulting its employees and the general public on and around Valentine’s Day”. One can read about the origins of Valentine’s Day at http://www.bright.net/~magates/Valentine/. The site says in part, “The one thing we can be sure of is that at least one person by the name of Valentine did live and that he was killed for being a Christian.”

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