SC Refuses To Quash FIR, Grants Interim Protection To Abhisar Sharma Over 'Assam Land Allotment' Video
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim protection to journalist and YouTuber Abhisar Sharma in an FIR filed against him in Assam for a video post allegedly criticizing the state’s policies. The interim protection order will be for a period of four weeks.
A bench of Justices M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh granted the interim protection while refusing to entertain his challenge against the case registered against him by the Assam police. The top court directed the journalist to approach the Gauhati High Court to seek the quashing of the FIR lodged against him.
The journalist’s alleged video against the Assam government raised questions about its allotment of 3000 bighas of land to a private entity in the state. In the mentioned video, Sharma spoke about a Gauhati High Court observation, in which the court expressed shock and displeasure over the Assam government allotting around 3,000 bighas of land to a private cement company for the purpose of mining in the Dima Hasao region of Assam.
Notably, in this context, Sharma alleged that the Assam government had given 9000 bighas of land to the Adani Group and accused Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of favoring the Adani Group. The Assam police registered an FIR against the journalist under Section 152 of BNS.
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