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India top court: Nupur Sharma must apologise for prophet remarks

Nupur Sharma's incendiary remarks had forced the BJP into damage control [File: Saumya Khandelwal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images]

Nupur Sharma, a former spokeswoman of India’s ruling party whose remarks on the Prophet Muhammad and his wife Aisha sparked huge protests and triggered a diplomatic row, should apologise, the nation’s top court has said.

“She and her loose tongue have set the country on fire,” the Supreme Court said on Friday during a procedural hearing on several criminal complaints filed against Sharma.

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