Student of Montreal University finally gets bail.
A young woman, Lois Sophia who was sent to judicial custody for 15 days on Monday for shouting slogans against the Narendra Modi government has been granted bail. A district magistrate court granted bail to the student and she has been adviced not to make such sloganeering inside an aircraft.
Lois Sophia who was traveling in a flight in the presence of Tamil Nadu BJP president Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan had called the Central government “fascist” following which Dr Soundararajan picked up an argument with her at the Thoothukudi airport in Tamil Nadu.
She was arrested and later produced before the judicial magistrate at Thoothukudi from where she was sent to judicial custody for 15 days. However due to her ill health, she was admitted to a local hospital and now bail has been provided to her after the issue snowballed.
According to Sophia's Twitter feed, she is a strident critic of the ruling government in the Centre and has taken vocal stance in many issues. Even before raising slogans, she had expressed her intentions to do so on Twitter.
In a video that went viral on social media, Soundararajan was seen losing her cool and arguing with Sophia, a doctoral student of Physics at the University of Montreal, in the arrival lounge of the Thoothukudi airport. BJP workers could be heard angrily asking her to apologise.
Tamilisai accused Sophia who was seated behind her in the flight of raising slogan “down with the fascist BJP government”. Even as a policewoman was trying to pacify her, she said that woman raised the slogan when she went to collect her baggage from the cabin.
On the complaint filed by the BJP leader, the police arrested Sophia, a native of Thoothukudi, on the charges of causing public nuisance and a breach of public peace under sections of the IPC and the Madras City Police Act, 1888. Sophia's father has filed a counter complaint against Tamilisai and her supporters for issuing death threats to his daughter.
Soundararajan later told the media that the student rose in a "menacing" manner against her. She felt there was a threat to her life in the manner in which the woman protested, Soundararajan said."A middle-aged lady on seeing me started raising anti-BJP slogans and even followed up to the arrival gate," the BJP leader said.
"She is not an ordinary person," the BJP leader said, adding that there must be some "organisation" behind her protest which should be probed. The words used by her was not used by ordinary people, she noted.
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