However, Panoli had deleted the video and issued an apology on May 15. On Tuesday, the Calcutta High Court refused to grant interim bail to Instagram influencer Sharmistha Panoli.

Sharmistha Panoli, a 22-year-old law student from Pune and social media influencer with over 80,000 followers on Instagram and X, has been arrested by the Kolkata Police from Gurugram, Haryana ...

The top court stays the arrest of Wazahat Khan, the main complainant in the case against social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli, in all FIRs registered against him outside West Bengal.

Khan, whose complaint led to influencer Sharmistha Panoli's arrest on May 30, was himself arrested on June 9 in Kolkata's Amherst Street area.

The FIRs were in retaliation to a complaint filed by him against Panoli, who was arrested and later released on bail, he argued. "I have deleted all of them and apologised," his counsel said ...