Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, June 7: Former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, has been summoned by Mumbra police in Maharashtra for allegedly making offensive comments against Prophet Mohammed during a television debate. On June 22, she will have to appear in front of the cops to record her statement.
Mumbra, Pydhonie, and Thane have all filed charges against her. She has now been summoned to give a statement.
The case against Nupur Sharma was filed by the joint secretary of the Raza Academy’s Mumbai wing, Irfan Shaikh, with the Pydhonie police station in south Mumbai.
Sharma was charged under several sections of the Indian Penal Code for ‘promoting enmity, outraging religious feelings’, ‘uttering words with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person’, ‘deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of a class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs’, and other offences.
