FILE PHOTO: Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of the state of West Bengal, gestures during a sit-in in Kolkata, India, February 5, 2019. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File Photo
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court on Tuesday granted bail to a ruling party activist who was arrested last week for sharing a meme of opposition leader Mamata Banerjee, one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's challengers in the general election.
Priyanka Sharma's arrest for sharing a meme on Facebook that superimposed Banerjee's head on a picture of actress Priyanka Chopra sporting frizzy hair at the Met Gala in New York was criticised as a curb on free speech.
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