Sharmishta Panoli is a travel vlogger and a law student who recently got arrested from her Delhi’s residence for uploading an allegedly offensive story on her Instagram.

She was gaining eyeballs very quickly due to her aggressive criticism of Pakistan using abusive language, and calling out Pakistani leaders, Pakistani public (calling them traitors) and Bollywood actors for staying silent on national issues.

She belongs to Delhi and is a fourth year law student at Symbiosis Institute in Pune. She was arrested by Kolkatta Police on 30th May 2025 after a case was filed against her in West Bengal for the offensive video.

While Sharmishta Panoli had deleted that story, it is alleged that she said some controversial words about Prophet Muhammad, who holds a central and revered position in Islam.

Seeing that the uproar against her is not going down through apology story on Instagram, she made a special video to apologize again.

Her statements had hurted the sentiments of a minority community which is why legal action has been taken against her.

Prominent personalities like Assuddin Owaisi, the AIMIM chief and Mohammad Zubair strongly condemned the Sharmishta Panoli for her defematrory words on Prophet Muhammad.

What was the incident where Sharmishta made the derogatory comments?

Sharmistha in her Instagram was replying to a Pakistani comment which asked why India started open firing in the country, referring to India’s strong counter attack to Pahalgam massacre nearly a month ago. While Sharmistha was answering her through the video, she made derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad.

After her instagram story got viral, the social media was divided in two sections. While a number of people were demanding her arrest, there were also trends which said “IStandWithSharmishtha”.

Seeing that her video containing derogatory comments on Prophet Muhammad was causing a massive uproar, Sharmishta offered the following apology

“I do hereby tender by UNCONDITIONAL APOLOGY” whatever was put are my personal feelings and I never intentionally wanted to hurt anybody so if anybody is hurt I’m sorry for the same. I expect co-operation and understanding. Henceforth, I will be cautious in my public post. Again please accept my apologies.”

You can see the below video as to know what Sharmishta actually said.

Who is Team Rising Falcon in Sharmistha Panoli Case?

As per their Tweet, Team Rising Falcon made strong demands for the arrest of Sharmishta Panoli. They opinioned that they are against all forms of religious hatred.