Priyanka Sharma faces non-bailable charge. Priyanka Sharma faces non-bailable charge.

The family of arrested BJP youth wing leader from West Bengal Priyanka Sharma will move the Supreme Court on Monday to file a bail petition even as the party organised a march here demanding her release.

Priyanka, 25, whose Facebook profile describes her as Howrah district club cell convener of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), was arrested on Friday for allegedly posting a picture of actor Priyanka Chopra with her husband Nick Jonas at the red carpet of the recent Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York, with Banerjee’s face superimposed on the actor’s. The image is no longer on Priyanka’s Facebook timeline.

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On Saturday, Priyanka was produced at the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Howrah which remanded her in judicial custody for 14 days. She is presently lodged in Alipore Women Correctional Home.

“As there is a strike going on in courts across that state we have decided to move the Supreme Court. Tomorrow (Monday) we will file her bail petition there,” Rajiv Sharma, brother of Priyanka, told The Indian Express.

BYJM Howrah district president Om Prakash Singh is accompanying Rajiv to Delhi.

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Priyanka has been charged under Section 500 of the IPC (defamation), and Sections 66A (offensive messages) and the non-bailable 67A (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act, etc., in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act. Police said they acted on the basis of a complaint by local Trinamool Congress leader Vibhas Hazra.

In a bid to garner support for Priyanka’s release, the BJP Sunday took out a rally from Howrah Bridge to Dashnagar, Priyanka’s residence, which was attended by Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma.

The BJP leader also met Priyanka’s mother and assured her of all help. “Our party president Amit Shah asked me to visit her house. We have told them that there is no need to get scared as we will stand by them,” he said.

Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi accused the TMC of creating a “atmosphere of fear” in West Bengal. “Law will take its own course but law must not be used for political purpose,” he said.

The Opposition, too, slammed the TMC government for taking action against the young BJP worker.

Senior Congress leader Om Prakash Mishra said, “It was not in good taste and the people should exercise restrain. However, that does not necessitated such a drastic action.”

CPM MP, Mohammad Salim said TMC is doing exactly what the BJP is doing across the country. “The same trend is continuing in West Bengal. Whoever is sharing any photoshoped picture of the chief minister or the prime minister is being prosecuted. The TMC government is no different from Narendra Modi government,” said Salim.

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