The court docket additionally protected her from coercive motion in any future FIRs/complaints which can be registered in reference to the Prophet remarks.
The bench additionally took up Sharma’s utility to revive her withdrawn writ petition to membership all of the FIRs lodged in opposition to her throughout India. A complete of 9 FIRs are reported to have been filed in opposition to Sharma, together with one in Delhi, 5 in Maharashtra, two in West Bengal and one in Telangana.
Senior advocate Maninder Singh, showing for Sharma, stated the July 1 order of the Supreme Court docket asking her to method involved Excessive Courts to hunt reduction on FIRs could be tough as dying threats have been made in opposition to her.
Observing that it by no means wished Sharma to go to each court docket for reduction, the division bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala issued notices to the Centre and the states the place circumstances have been registered. Their response has been sought by August 10.
On July 1, the identical bench of the highest court docket had severely criticised Sharma for her controversial feedback in opposition to the Prophet, saying her “free tongue” had “set the complete nation on fireplace” and that she is “single-handedly liable for what is going on within the nation”.
Following the scathing criticism, Sharma had withdrawn her plea to membership all of the FIRs. She has now requested for the feedback made by the bench to be expunged.
Sharma’s feedback had created an uproar inside the nation with huge rallies taken out by Muslim teams, apart from inflicting a diplomatic fallout with a number of Gulf nations registering their official protest. Quickly after, she was suspended from the BJP.
(With inputs from businesses)
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