The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Madhya Pradesh Minister Vijay Shah’s apology for his ‘crass remarks’ against Colonel Sofiya Qureshi.
She was among the three Army officials briefing the media on Operation Sindoor. The court reprimanded the minister and called the apology insincere “crocodile tears”. It also pointed out that his remarks were “completely thoughtless”.
The Supreme Court constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising three senior IPS officers to probe the FIR against the Madhya Pradesh Minister, specifying that at least one of them should be a woman.
“The kind of crass comments you made, completely thoughtlessly. What prevented you from making a sincere attempt? We don’t require your apology. We know how to deal with as per the law,” Justice Surya Kant said.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh also lashed out at Shah, saying, “We don’t need your apology. You are a public figure, a seasoned politician. You should weigh your words. You were at the verge of using abusive language, you stopped. You were about to use filthy language, you couldn’t find a word so you stopped”.
Madhya Pradesh Tribal Welfare Minister Vijay Shah made a rabidly communal remark on the top Army officer at a recent public event, claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sent “a sister from the same community” as those in Pakistan to avenge the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam.
“Modiji is striving for the society. Those who widowed our daughters, we sent a sister of their own to teach them a lesson,” Shah had said. Referring to the act of terrorists identifying tourists based on their religion, Minister Shah continued with a highly controversial analogy, and said. “Now, Modiji could not have done the same. So he sent a sister from their society, so that if you widowed our sisters, a sister of yours will come and undress you”.
The Supreme Court called it “the most unfortunate statement” and said that, being a minister, he should have maintained a standard much above others.
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