The Lakshadweep Administration had said that the filmmaker was not cooperating with the investigation and that she had erased text messages from her mobile phone
Sultan approached the Kerala HC seeking to quash the sedition case registered against her, however, the administration stated that she has failed to cooperate properly with the police.
Kerala HC on Aisha Sultana case refuses to stay proceedings, says case in “infancy” stage and prosecutors should be given time to investigate.
Aisha Sultana had been previously granted a seven-day anticipatory bail on June 17.
A case of sedition was registered against the actor turned filmmaker after Lakshadweep BJP head Abdul Khader had filed a complaint against her for her remarks during a panel discussion on a Malayalam news channel.
She was booked by the Kavaratti police on June 9 for claiming that the Centre used biological weapons against the people of Lakshadweep. This statement was made by her while participating in a debate telecast by a Malayalam news channel on June 7.Aisha
Sultana talked to the media at Kochi airport on her way to Archipelago and said, “I believe that I will get justice as I have not done anything wrong.”
The Lakshadweep filmmaker and actor Aisha Sultana has been granted interim bail in the sedition case. Know more here.
In Aisha Sultana sedition case filmmaker gets a week of interim anticipatory bail. Her lawyer argued the bioweapon remark was made in the “heat of the moment.”
The allegation is that while participating in a debate aired on a Malayalam news channel on June 7, Sultana asserted that the Central Government has used ‘biological weapon’ against the people of the island.
