The Kerala High Court will on Thursday hear an anticipatory bail plea filed by filmmaker Aisha Sultana in a sedition case filed against he...
The Kerala High Court will on Thursday hear an anticipatory bail plea filed by filmmaker Aisha Sultana in a sedition case filed against her in Lakshadweep, the Hindustan Times reported.
On June 10, the police booked Sultana for saying that the Centre was using the Union Territory’s administrator Praful Khoda Patel as a “bio-weapon” against the residents. The Lakshadweep unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party had filed a complaint, accusing her of making “anti-national” comments “tarnishing the patriotic image of the central government” during a debate on a Malayalam news channel.
A slew of regulations introduced by Patel has triggered a massive outcry among the residents of the Union Territory as well as Opposition parties.
On Tuesday, during the first hearing of the plea, Justice Ashok Menon sought a response from the police in Lakshadweep’s capital Kavaratti. The court had adjourned the matter till Thursday, Live Law reported.
In her bail plea, Sultana argued that criticism of political matters did not constitute sedition. Referring to two Supreme Court judgements, including one in the Vinod Dua case, the filmmaker contended that merely criticising the government did not amount to sedition if there was no incitement to violence.
Responding to another charge of Section 153B (assertions against national integration) of the Indian Penal Code under which she has been booked, Sultana...
