Overview

• Panoli secured interim bail on June 5, 2025, on a personal bond of ₹10,000 and must cooperate with the ongoing investigation.
• The court instructed Kolkata Police to provide protection after she reported receiving threats of violence following her now-deleted Instagram video.
• The Bar Council of India had called Panoli’s arrest a serious miscarriage of justice and urged her release.
• Wajahat Khan Qadri, who filed the original complaint against Panoli, has been booked for allegedly posting inflammatory content and remains absconding.
• Multiple FIRs filed across West Bengal over the same communal post have been consolidated into a single case to be tried in Kolkata.