The point to note is that all these caustic remarks by the bench are not part of the brief four-line order in which the petitioner was allowed to withdraw her petition. It means that Nupur Sharma can approach high courts and trial courts for relief. The sharp observations made by the vacation bench are however surprising.
The incident occurred between 10 pm and 10.30 pm when chemist Umesh Kolhe was going home on a two-wheeler after closing his shop. His son Saket (27) and his wife Vaishnavi were accompanying him in a different vehicle.
The incident occurred a week before two men hacked to death Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor in Rajasthan's Udaipur, with a cleaver at his shop before posting videos online saying that they were avenging an insult to Islam.
While it was unclear if Anupam Kher made the remarks against the Supreme Court in regard to Nupur Sharma or not, the tweet garnered a lot of attention with users supporting the suspended BJP spokesperson.
It has also been revealed that after the murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal, the accused sent the message "the given has been completed" in a WhatsApp group, that also had some Pakistani nationals as its members.
The Supreme Court today came down heavily on Sharma for her controversial comments against the Prophet, saying her "loose tongue" has "set the entire country on fire" and asked her to immediately apologise to the nation for her remarks.
The suspended BJP leader has failed to appear before Mumbai Police, Kolkata Police to record her statement in the case registered against her for making allegedly objectionable remarks against Prophet Mohammad during a television channel discussion
The top court said her outburst is responsible for the unfortunate incident at Udaipur, where a tailor was beheaded.
In Rajasthan's Udaipur, two men with a cleaver murdered a Lal, a tailor on Tuesday and posted videos online that said they are avenging an insult to Islam, with the brutal killing drawing widespread condemnations.
Kanhaiya Lal was cremated on Wednesday in the presence of a large number of people even as curfew remained clamped in parts of the city.
The case has been registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the UA(P)A. The case was initially registered at Dhanmandi police station in Udaipur.
AIMPLB appealed to the Muslim community to act patiently and to not take law into their own hands and not indulge in any such action that might disturb the communal harmony and social cohesion of the country.
The accused not only brutally killed the tailor but also filmed the crime scene while the victim was continuously pleading saying "what was his falt". The video was later posted on social media.
One of the assailants, who was identified as Riyaz, attacked Kanhaiya Lal with a sharp-edged weapon while the other recorded the crime on his mobile phone, police said.
In a video clip, Akhtari declared that they had “beheaded” the man and went on to threaten Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying their knife will get him as well.
The motion was an unscheduled one, and it did not name anyone as the matter is sub judice.
Owaisi further said that BJP is safeguarding Nupur Sharma and asked the Telangana CM to arrest her and bring her to Telangana.
Curfew was imposed in Bhaderwah in Doda district on June 9 following communal tension in the wake of protests over remarks by now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on Prophet Mohammad and some social media posts by local right-wing activists in her support.
200 companies of PAC and 50 companies of Rapid Action Force have been deployed across major cities in the state to maintain law and order.
"We've condemned the offensive comments made by two BJP functionaries, and we were glad to see that the party publicly condemned their statements," State department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at his daily news conference on Thursday.
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