Overview
- A Supreme Court bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N. V. Anjaria extended interim protection from arrest for Hemant Malviya until the next hearing.
- Malviya must publish an apology on all his social media platforms within 10 days, following an earlier affidavit of apology filed in Hindi.
- Advocate Vrinda Grover, for Malviya, said he would post the apology and offered to delete the content, but the court barred deletion at this stage.
- Additional Solicitor General K. M. Nataraj, for Madhya Pradesh, opposed deleting the post, sought an undertaking against repetition, and pressed for cooperation with the ongoing probe.
- The case stems from a complaint in May over a 2021 cartoon and later reposts, with FIRs under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 196, 299 and 352 and IT Act section 67A, after the Madhya Pradesh High Court denied anticipatory bail on July 3.