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The Kerala High Court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to filmmaker Aisha Sultana in a sedition case, Live Law reported.
On June 10, the police had 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.
She was asked to appear before the police in Lakshadweep’s capital Kavaratti on June 20. On June 14, the filmmaker approached the Kerala High Court seeking anticipatory bail in the case. Three days later, the court granted her an interim anticipatory bail for one week, and reserved its final verdict on the plea.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the Lakshadweep administration told the court that Sultana had abused the interim protection granted to her by the court by flouting Covid-19 norms. In an application to the court, the administration alleged that Sultana met people and spoke to the media even after she was advised to stay in home quarantine except when called for interrogation. The application asked the court to consider this while hearing her anticipatory bail application.
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