“Supreme Court stays Wajahat Khan’s arrest, stayed silent during Sharmistha Panoli’s cross-state arrest — double standards?”, Organiser, June 24, 2025:
“The Supreme Court particularly the contrasting treatment of influencer-law student Sharmistha Panoli and social media activist Wajahat Khan — have thrown up serious questions about the consistency of the highest court of the land.
At the core of this unfolding controversy is a troubling duality: two individuals accused of the same offence — hurting religious sentiments through social media posts — being treated in fundamentally different ways by the Indian judiciary.
On June 23, the Supreme Court of India stayed any further arrest of Wajahat Khan in FIRs filed outside West Bengal, where he is already in judicial custody. The stay was granted even as the Court acknowledged that Khan’s posts were objectionable and laced with hate speech…….”
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