‘Freedom fighters took bullets, you fear eggs?’: SC refuses Mahua Moitra's plea seeking to virtually join probe
Mahua Moitra had sought to join police interrogation through video-conferencing in a case over her allegedly provocative Facebook posts.
The Supreme Court denied Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra's request to participate in police interrogations via video conference in a case stemming from her controversial Facebook posts. The bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu dismissed Moitra's plea, asserting that she should not shy away from appearing before investigators due to potential egg-throwing incidents.
The court emphasized that freedom fighters have endured bullets, and the allegations against Moitra were not comparable. Moitra faces an FIR registered by BJP leader Hirak Bhattacharya, accusing her of making provocative remarks that may harm religious sentiments and disturb communal harmony. The case arose from videos posted by Moitra, in which she threatened to file a police complaint against the egg-throwing women if the police refused to register her complaint.
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