Overview
- Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Dipankar Datta and Joymalya Bagchi directed the state to take a call in two weeks and file a status report.
- The bench opened the SIT’s sealed report, which sought permission to prosecute, and rejected the state’s explanation that the matter’s pendency before the Supreme Court justified no action.
- The court asked the SIT to submit a separate report on other instances in which Vijay Shah allegedly made objectionable remarks, indicating proposed action.
- Shah’s counsel cited apologies and cooperation, but the court said no apology was on record and called it too late, recalling earlier remarks about “crocodile tears.”
- The case stems from a Madhya Pradesh High Court–prompted FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after Shah’s post–Operation Sindoor comments widely seen as targeting Colonel Sofiya Qureshi; the Supreme Court had earlier stayed his arrest and ordered the three-member SIT probe.