Lois Sophia, a 28-year-old research scholar at the University of Montreal, Canada, has been arrested by the police in Tamil Nadu for shouting slogans inside an aircraft in which Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Tamilisai Soundararajan was also on board.

Sophia shouted “Down with fascist BJP” inside the aircraft as Soundararajan was trying to fetch her bag inside the cabin in the flight that landed at Thoothukudi from Chennai. With the BJP leader protesting on coming out to the security area, Sophia was arrested and remanded in 15 days judicial custody.

On Tuesday, Deccan Herald reported that a Thoothukudi court had granted Sophia bail without mentioning the conditions under which it was granted. The daily said Sophia’s sloganeering was initially ignored by Soundararajan, but she objected to them when the research scholar indulged in sloganeering again at the arrival area. The research scholar also reportedly tweeted that she wanted to shout the slogan on seeing Soundararajan.