SC grants journalist Abhisar Sharma 4-week interim protection from arrest

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted journalist Abhisar Sharma interim protection from arrest for four weeks in the case against him for accusing Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of engaging in communal politics, Bar and Bench reported.

Refusing to entertain Sharma’s plea to quash the first information report against him, a bench of Justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh directed the journalist to approach the Gauahati High Court.

Sharma was booked on August 21 under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to acts endangering national unity and sovereignty, promoting enmity between groups and making assertions prejudicial to national integration.