India, June 9 -- The father of influencer Sharmishta Panoli, who was granted interim bail by the Calcutta High Court, has spoken out following her arrest over controversial social media comments related to Operation Sindoor.

The 22-year-old was arrested by Kolkata Police from Gurugram and accused of hurting religious sentiments with allegedly communal remarks made in a video posted online. Days after she was granted bail, her father, Prithviraj Panoli, shared a post on X, quoting Urdu poet Allama Iqbal's song 'Saare Jahan Se Accha'. Referencing a verse which calls for no religious animosity, Panoli said, "He preached this to the secular Hindustan and then became one of the founding voices for Islamic Pakistan."

Defending his daughter, P...