New Delhi. Kolkata Police arrested Social Media Influencer and Sharmistha Panoli, a student of Symbiosis Institute in Pune from Delhi on Friday. Sharmistha Panoli was studying advocacy in Pune. Sharmistha Panoli is accused of shared an objectionable talk about Prophet Mohammad on his social media account. In this case, complaints were made against the police against Sharmishtha Panoli at many places across the country. Sharmishtha has been arrested by Kolkata Police on a similar complaint. There is a lot of discussion in social media about the arrest of Sharmishtha Panoli. All the users have questioned the Kolkata Police in the case of arresting Sharmishtha.
Along with sharing the alleged objectionable videos on social media, voice started raising against Sharmistha Panoli. On this, Sharmishtha Panoli deleted the video. Sharmistha Panoli also apologized for sharing objectionable videos. Then seeing her security in danger, she left Pune and came to Delhi. Kolkata Police came to Delhi and arrested Sharmistha Panoli. Kolkata Police presented Sharmistha to a Delhi magistrate. Transit remand was given to take Kolkata from there. The case is that Sharmistha has millions of followers on social media. One of them is also from Pakistan. This Pakistani follower asked Sharmistha Panoli a question after the Pahalgam terror attack. The video responding to the same was shared by Sharmistha on 14 May 2025 through his social media account.
I do hereby tender my unconditional apology whitever was put are my personal feelings and i Never Internally Wanted to Hurt Anybody so if anybody is hurt I’m sorry for the same. I expect co-operation and undersrstanding. Henceforth, I will be cautious in my public post. Again…
– Sharmishta (@sharmishta__19) May 15, 2025
On sharing the video, people of the Muslim community were enraged on Sharmistha. The demand for his arrest began to arise. At the same time some users also killed Sharmishtha Panoli and threatened to rape. Sharmistha Panoli apologized on 15 May while deleting the video. Later, by another post, he had told that fundamentalist Pakistani terrorists are targeting him due to targeting Pakistan. Sharmistha Panoli also said that the country comes first for him. All social media users are questioning the arrest of Sharmishtha. Some have said that the Delhi High Court had said in its judgment in November 2004 that the accused has the right to seek legal help if he is arrested without written basis.
