Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal government has been issued contempt notice by the Supreme Court on a petition by the BJP’s Priyanka Sharma who was arrested in May for a meme on the chief minister. Priyanka Sharma was released nearly 24 hours after the Supreme Court ordered her released on May 14. While ordering her release, the top court had observed that the arrest of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s Priyanka Sharma appeared to be “arbitrary”. The judges initially told Priyanka Sharma that she would have to apologise if she wanted bail. Priyanka Sharma was arrested on May 10 after she reportedly superimposed Banerjee’s face on Priyanka Chopra’s photograph from the Met Gala event in New York held on May 6.

Source: Hindustan Times July 01, 2019 06:03 UTC