Filmmaker and activist Aisha Sultana on Monday approached the Kerala High Court seeking anticipatory bail in the sedition case filed against her by the Lakshadweep Police.
BJP’s Lakshadweep unit president C Abdul Khader Haji had filed a complaint against Sultana for calling the Union Territory’s administrator, Praful Patel, a bio-weapon being used by the Centre on the island’s people.
According to Khader’s complaint, Sultana had purportedly made the remark on a recent debate on a Malayalam channel over the ongoing controversial reforms in Lakshadweep.
This sparked protests from the BJP’s Lakshadweep unit. BJP workers in Kerala had moved complaints against the filmmaker as well.