{"id":312205,"date":"2019-05-14T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312205"},"modified":"2019-05-14T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:34:55","slug":"sc-grants-bail-to-bjp-leader-arrested-for-mamatas-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-grants-bail-to-bjp-leader-arrested-for-mamatas-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"SC grants bail to BJP leader arrested for Mamata&#8217;s meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to BJP worker Priyanka Sharma for sharing an objectionable photograph of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Initially, the court had made her release subject to BJP leader tendering an apology, however later it called back senior advocate NK Kaul, representing Priyanka Sharma, and clarified that she has to be released immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, Sharma had moved the top Court against her arrest last week for sharing the meme of Banerjee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Court had agreed to hear the matter today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench, comprising justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna observed that since Priyanka Sharma is a member of a political party, the insinuation of posting such a picture will be different from those shared by common people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A BJP Yuva Morcha leader allegedly shared on social media a photo in which TMC chief Mamata Banerjee\u2019s face has been photoshopped on to actor Priyanka Chopra&#8217;s picture from the MET Gala event in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Her arrest had sparked outrage on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to BJP worker Priyanka Sharma for sharing an objectionable photograph of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on social media. Initially, the court had made her release subject to BJP leader tendering an apology, however later it called back senior advocate NK Kaul, representing Priyanka Sharma, and clarified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[453,1889,11345,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312212,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312205\/revisions\/312212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}