NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 21, 2005: The High Court has fined two men US$227 for legally challenging the mainly Hindu country’s official three days of mourning for the death of Pope John Paul II, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The High Court in New Delhi said the petition urging the government not to declare official mourning for people “less significant for our country” and complaining of lost working days was a publicity-seeking “abuse of process.” It was not clear if the two men, one of them a college lecturer, must pay $227 each or the combined amount together.
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