New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh Cabinet Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah has moved the Supreme Court challenging an order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, which directed the registration of a criminal case against him for his controversial remarks on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi.
Shah’s plea was mentioned for an urgent hearing before a bench led by Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and comprising Justice A G Masih. The CJI orally remarked, "A Person holding such an office is expected to maintain...every sentence uttered by the minister has to be with responsibility."
When Shah’s counsel sought no coercive steps in the matter till the time he is heard, the bench directed him to move before the high court. The bench said it would hear Shah’s plea tomorrow.
The plea was filed today, a day after the high court pulled up Shah for using, what it termed, the “language of the gutters” by allegedly calling Colonel Qureshi the “sister of terrorists.”
Colonel Qureshi was one of the Army officers who had briefed the media on India's recent cross-border military response, Operation Sindoor, against Pakistan.
On Wednesday evening, the police registered an FIR against Shah. The FIR has been registered at the Manpur police station. Superintendent of Police (Indore Rural).
