Suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma has approached Supreme Court seeking a stay on her arrest in the FIRs registered against her for the controversial remark against Prophet Muhammad.
She has also sought a revival of her withdrawn plea and expunction of adverse remarks by a vacation bench on July 1 while hearing her petition for clubbing of FIRs lodged over her remarks on Prophet in a TV show.
A vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala had refused to entertain her plea for clubbing of the FIRs lodged in several states over her remarks. The top court had come down heavily on her for her controversial comments against the Prophet, saying her “loose tongue” has “set the entire country on fire” and that she is “single-handedly responsible for what is happening in the country”.
As many as nine FIRs have been filed against her in various states. Incidentally, her fresh petition is also listed before the same bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala, which had earlier heard her case on July 1 and rebuked Sharma for her “disturbing” remarks against the Prophet.
