FIR lodged against BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma in Mumbai, alleging controversial remarks on a particular religion

Maharashtra: Sections 295A (hurting religious sentiments), 153A (attempting to incite riots) of IPC against BJP national spokesperson Nupur Sharma for hurting sentiments of a particular community with her remarks on national television. ) and 505B (causing fear in public). News agency ANI gave this information. This case has been registered against the BJP leader on the complaint of Raza Academy, an organization of Indian Sunni Muslims. This action has been taken against a BJP leader for making objectionable remarks about a particular religion during a TV debate.

In this regard, BJP's national spokesperson Nupur Sharma says that after a so-called fact-checker circulated an edited video of a TV debate in the Gyanvapi case, she received constant threats of rape and suffocation on social media from Islamic fundamentalists. have been Nupur has alleged that the alleged fact checker had posted her edited video on social media to promote trolls against her. Nupur Sharma contested the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections against Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal on a BJP ticket from the New Delhi Assembly seat. She has also been the President of Delhi University Students' Union as an ABVP candidate.

Nupur Sharma is a member of the State Executive Committee of Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party as well as the national spokesperson of the party. Apart from this, she has also been a prominent face of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). Being a national spokesperson, she supports BJP in television news channels. Studied at Hindu College, Delhi University, London School of Economics, UK, Nupur is a lawyer by profession. He has a post graduation degree in Law. Nupur Sharma had reached the debate of a television news channel regarding the Gyanvapi Masjid controversy. During this, he had said that Hindu faith is constantly being mocked on social media.

During the debate, Nupur made some remarks about a particular religion, the video of which was shared by the alleged fact checker on her social media handle. After this the Islamic fundamentalists started threatening the BJP spokesperson with rape and murder. Nupur Sharma tweeted tagging the Delhi Police Commissioner and said that her sister, mother, father are getting death threats and beheadings. If anything untoward happens to him or any member of his family, then the alleged fact checker who shared his edited video will be responsible for it.