Overview

• Congress leader Jaya Thakur filed a writ petition citing Article 164(3), alleging that Shah’s reference to Col Qureshi as a “sister of terrorists” encouraged separatist sentiments and violated his oath.
• A bench led by Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta declined to entertain the removal plea, advising Thakur to seek alternate legal remedies.
• The court has maintained Shah’s protection from arrest on condition he fully cooperates and continues to await a report from the three-member SIT.
• The Supreme Court-mandated SIT, formed in May and including a woman IPS officer, is probing an FIR registered under sections 152, 196(1)(b) and 197 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
• Shah’s May 11 comments linking Col Qureshi’s Muslim identity to terrorists during her Operation Sindoor briefings sparked national outrage and drew contempt warnings from the Madhya Pradesh High Court.