Lakshadweep Filmmaker Faces Sedition FIR For "Bio-Weapon" Remark

Friday, 11 June 2021Newsdesk

Lakshadweep filmmaker Aisha Sultana has been named in a case of sedition and hate speech for her comments criticizing Administrator Praful Khoda Patel's Covid handling and alleging that the Centre had used a "bio-weapon". The FIR was filed on the complaint of the BJP's chief in the Union Territory.

New Delhi, 11 June 2021

As per news report of NDTV, Aisha Sultana had, during a news debate on a regional channel, blamed Covid cases in the island on Praful Patel's decisions and remarked that the Centre had used "bio-weapon" against Lakshadweep. The Administrator has been accused by protesters including Lakshadweep Parliamentarian Mohammed Faizal in the past of doing away with quarantine protocols that were a must for people to enter Lakshadweep. "Lakshadweep had zero cases of COVID-19. Now it is reporting a daily spike of 100 cases. What the Centre has deployed is a bioweapon. I can say this clearly that the central government has deployed bioweapon," she had said on a Malayalam TV debate earlier this week.

Source -NDTV