Noting Death Threat To Nupur Sharma, Supreme Court Offers Her Relief

The Supreme Court has agreed to Nupur Sharma's request to club all the police cases against her in order that she doesn't need to defend herself in several states.

Ms Sharma was suspended in June as spokesperson for the BJP after her comments about Prophet Muhammad triggered huge protests in India and a series of official complaints by Gulf countries.

First Information Reports, or FIRs, against her are filed in multiple states.

She had asked the Supreme Court to collate them. The judges, agreeing thereto, said they need considered death threats to her.

At a hearing on legal holiday, two judges of the Supreme Court held Ms Sharma "single-handedly responsible" for violence that broke out after her investigate the Prophet during a news channel debate.

The Supreme Court said all police cases against Ms Sharma are going to be clubbed together and handed over to the Delhi Police. The police within the city, a Union Territory, come under the house Ministry headed by Amit Shah.