Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Supreme Court orders ‘no coercive action’ against Imran Pratapgarhi on FIR filed over communal disharmony

The Supreme Court has today ordered the Gujarat government to take no coercive actions against Congress MP and poet Imran Pratapgarhi over the charges of promoting communal disharmony. The apex court granted interim protection to the Congress MP and issued notice on the plea against the Gujarat High Court’s refusal to quash the FIR against the Congress leader.

The bench of justices Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan ordered that no coercive actions must be taken on the FIR filed against Pratapgarhi.

Pratapgari was represented by Kapil Sibal. Sibal pleaded to the SC bench against the decision of the Gujarat HC to reject Pratapgarhi’s plea to quash the FIR against him, “What are we coming to and where are we going? I need your lordships to say something. This order was passed on the first day itself even without a notice.”

The FIR was filed in Jamnagar, Gujarat over Pratapgarhi’s Instagram post that had a video clip with the poem ‘Ae khoon ke pyaase baat suno’ running in the background.