Commentator Madhu Kishwar denied anticipatory bail in case over ‘misleading’ post about PM Modi
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday denied anticipatory bail to commentator Madhu Kishwar in a case against her for making allegedly misleading claims on social media about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bar and Bench reported.
Kishwar had on April 18 shared on her account on social media platform X, or allegedly retweeted, a video purportedly showing Modi. The claim had been debunked and the person seen in the video was not Modi, according to the prosecution. The post was later deleted.
The Chandigarh Police had filed a first information report against her.
Kishwar has been booked under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to defamation, promoting enmity between groups on grounds, doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony, cheating, forgery, forging a document or electronic record and using it as genuine, and making statements conducing to public mischief, Live Law reported.
She has also been booked under provisions of the Information Technology Act.
On Friday, Kishwar said that her application for anticipatory bail had been rejected on what she described as “flimsy grounds”. The FIR was politically motivated and filed in the Union Territory, “which is directly under Union Home Minister Amit Shah”, she alleged.
This had made it “very tough to find a lawyer” to argue her case, she claimed.
The case
On Friday, Justice Aman Chaudhary said that Kishwar had not cooperated...