The Supreme Court will take up on Tuesday a habeas corpus petition filed by the family of Bengal BJP youth leader Priyanka Sharma who was arrested for sharing on Facebook a morphed photograph of chief minister Mamata Banerjee. The habeas corpus petition is filed before a high court or the Supreme Court seeking the production of a person whose whereabouts are not known. After her arrest by Howrah police on May 9, Priyanka was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days. The lawyer said she had merely shared on her Facebook page a morphed image which had already gone viral on the social media. The morphed facial photo of the chief minister was superimposed on the picture of Bollywood actress Priyanaka Chopra.

Source: The Telegraph May 13, 2019 20:26 UTC