The Satanic Verses

An Indian court has lifted the ban on Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses, for bureaucratic reasons. Someone challenged the ban, and the government couldn't find the original order:

The judges hearing the case at the Delhi High Court wrote in the Nov. 5 ruling that since nobody could produce the original order for them to examine, "we have no other option except to presume that no such notification exists, and therefore, we cannot examine the validity thereof."