The transfer petition has been filed in Supreme Court by the Centre in the wake of pending matters before various High Courts across the Country challenging its new IT Rules.
The Public Prosecutor had opposed the application, stating that "medical officers, in spite of their diligent and devoted discharge of duty during the period of pandemic are at the receiving end.
On a Media One TV debate, Aisha Sultana had said the Centre was trying a biological weapon against the people of Lakshadweep by changing laws. Police booked her for sedition for this comment. Now, she has got anticipatory bail from the Kerala High Court.
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday stayed Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel’s controversial orders of removing meat from the mid-day meal for students and winding up government-run dairy farms.
As a result, the all further proceedings pursuant of Nilambur Police Station, Malappuram District against the Petitioner stands quashed, the Court ordered.
The division bench of Justices S.V. Bhatti and Murali Purushothaman passed this judgment while hearing a petition which claimed to have been filed to protect the interests/rights of the people of Lakshadweep, a Union Territory, from the ulterior motive of destroying the traditional life and culture.
Aisha Sultana was seeking pre-arrest bail in the FIR registered by Kavaratti Police under Section 124A (sedition) and 153B (acts against national integration) of IPC on the basis of a petition lodged by the BJP’s Lakshadweep unit president C Abdul Khadar Haji.