Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, arrested for mocking Parliament and the National Emblem, has been sent to judicial custody by a Mumbai Court till September 24. The Police did not seek Aseem's custody and Mumbai's Bandra Court sent him to judicial custody as he did not apply for bail. He will now be sent to Arthur road jail.

Earlier today, Aseem said that he had no regrets for what he had said and would continue doing what he had done. Meanwhile, Maharashtra Government today said, it was trying to seek the release of the artist who has been charged with sedition. Home Minister R R Patil said that his department has nothing to do with the complaint filed against Trivedi.

Mr. Patil said, the government was considering Trivedi's case sympathetically and trying to seek his release. The Kanpur-based cartoonist was arrested by Mumbai Police on Saturday on the basis of a complaint filed in December by a member of the Republican Party of India. A Court had yesterday remanded him to police custody till September 16.