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The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026) granted interim extortion from apprehension to people vocalist Neha Singh Rathore successful a lawsuit filed against her implicit a societal media station on the Pahalgam panic attack.
The said comments allegedly targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP successful transportation with the sidesplitting of 26 tourists successful Pahalgam successful Jammu and Kashmir.
A Bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar issued announcement to the Uttar Pradesh authorities and the complainant successful the case, and said nary coercive steps shall beryllium taken against her.
The apical tribunal directed Ms. Rathore to look earlier the Investigating Officer and cooperate successful the probe.
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court connected December 5 past twelvemonth had rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by the people singer.
It had observed that Ms. Rathore had not cooperated with the probe contempt directions issued by an earlier seat that had dismissed her petition seeking quashing of the FIR.
The FIR against Ms. Rathore was registered astatine Hazratganj constabulary presumption successful Lucknow connected April 27, and the probe is underway.
The FIR accused Ms. Rathore of targeting a peculiar spiritual assemblage and threatening the unity of the country. She challenged the FIR filed against her by 1 Abhay Pratap Singh astatine the Hazratganj Police Station successful the past week of April. Singh accused Rathore of having "repeatedly attempted to incite 1 assemblage against different connected spiritual grounds".
Ms. Rathore contended successful her plea that she had been wrongfully implicated nether respective sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including promoting communal hatred, disturbing nationalist peace, and endangering the sovereignty, unity, and integrity of India.
She besides faces charges nether the Information Technology Act.
