New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kunwar Vijay Shah on Thursday (May 15) moved the Supreme Court challenging the Madhya Pradesh high court order directing action against him over his remarks on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi.
The high court had ordered a police case to be filed urgently against the Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister over his recent derogatory remark against Colonel Qureshi, who held a series of media briefings on Operation Sindoor last week.
A division bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Anuradha Shukla on Wednesday (May 14) initiated a suo motu case against Shah, calling his remarks against the Colonel “dangerous”.
“His comments are dangerous as now they have started reaching the armed forces of this country,” Justice Sreedharan said, according to a Bar and Bench report, ordering an FIR to be immediately filed under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS).
What did the minister say?
While addressing a gathering near Ramkund village near Indore, Shah made the objectionable comment, which seemed to be directed at Colonel Qureshi, referring to her as “sister of terrorists”.
“Jinhone humari betiyon ke sindoor ujade the… humne unki behen bhej kar ke unki aisi ki taisi karwayi (Those [terrorists] who wiped out the vermilion of our sisters [in the Pahalgam attack]… we avenged these people by sending their sister to destroy them),” Shah said.
He repeated it at least thrice that their community’s sister – “unki behen” and “unki samaj ki ki behen” – was sent by Modiji to destroy them.
“Unhone kapra utar ke hamare Hinduon ko maara, aur Modiji ne unki behen ko unki aisi ki taisi karne hamare jahaaz se unke ghar bheja (They killed our Hindu brothers. Modi ji responded by sending their own sister in an Army plane to strike them in their houses),” he said.
Shah, who has won eight consecutive elections from the Scheduled Tribe-reserved Harsud seat of Madhya Pradesh, is the current state minister for tribal affairs, public asset management, and Bhopal gas tragedy relief and rehabilitation.
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