India, May 31 -- Instagram influencer Sharmishta Panoli was arrested on Friday for an alleged controversial communal statement linked to Operation Sindoor. Hours after her arrest, she was produced before the Alipore Court in Kolkata, which remanded her in judicial custody for 14 days.

Sharmishta Panoli's advocate, Md Samimuddin, stated that they have moved her bail application before the court.

"The case relates to an Instagram video by a lady named Sharmishta Panoli that hurt the religious sentiments of a particular community. FIR was lodged at Garden Reach Police Station. Attempts to serve notice as per law couldn't be successful since the accused, with her family, absconded. Subsequently, a warrant of arrest was issued by the court o...