SC refuses to quash FIR against singer Neha Singh Rathore for posts about Pahalgam attack

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to quash the first information report filed against Bhojpuri singer Neha Singh Rathore for her social media posts about the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, Bar and Bench reported.

A bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi dismissed Rathore’s petition, stating that it was not inclined to intervene at this stage and instead asked her to “go and face trial”, PTI reported.

The court said that it was not commenting on the merits of the case and advised Rathore to contest specific charges during the framing stage.

The terror attack at Baisaran near the town of Pahalgam on April 22 left 26 persons dead and 17 injured. The terrorists targeted tourists after asking their names to ascertain their religion, the police said. All but three of those killed were Hindu.

In late April, Rathore was booked for a video posted on social media in which she said that the terrorist attack was an intelligence and security failure on the part of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government.

Rathore also claimed in the video that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would now seek votes in Bihar in the name of the Pahalgam attack just as he did after the 2019 Pulawama terror attack, which killed 40 Central Reserve...

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