SC Provides Bail to BJP Leader Who Morphed Mamata Banerjee Pic

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed bail to BJP YuvaMorcha leader Priyanka Sharma for morphing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's face on the image of actor Priyanka Chopra and posting it on the online life stage, Facebook.

A Vacation Bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjeev Khanna, be that as it may, coordinated Ms. Sharma to apologize to the Chief Minister.

The right to speak freely ought not to encroach on other individuals' rights, Justice Banerjee said tending to Ms. Sharma's attorneys.

The court said Ms. Sharma would apologize recorded as a hard copy after she is discharged on bail. The Bench said the obligation of a political leader to stay away from such examples of transforming the photo of sacred expert and abusing it is more noteworthy than that of a customary individual. A legislator, even a youthful leader like Ms. Sharma, ought to be reasonable.

In spite of the fact that the right to speak freely and articulation is "non-debatable", it ought not to infringe on the privileges of someone else, the court watched.

Ms. Sharma was captured on May 10 by the West Bengal Police under Section 500 (slander) of the IPC and under different arrangements of the Information Technology Act on the grumbling of a neighborhood Trinamool Congress leader, VibhasHazra.

The Supreme Court had on Monday chosen to hear the dire request made by the BJP YuvaMorcha leader. Senior backer Neeraj Kishan Kaul, for Ms. Sharma, had submitted she was in legal authority.

Ms. Sharma shared on Facebook a photograph wherein Ms. Banerjee's face has been morphed on to actor Priyanka Chopra's image from the MET Gala occasion in New York. Ms. Sharma, against whom a grievance was documented at Dasnagar Police station, has been sent to about fourteen days' legal care.