The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain singer and activist Neha Singh Rathore’s plea seeking to quash an FIR lodged against her over a social media post on the Pahalgam terror attack, directing her instead to face trial.

A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Kuldeep Bishnoi clarified that it was not expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, and noted that this was not the stage to interfere with the “charge of mutiny” relating to endangering India’s sovereignty, unity and integrity.

“It is merely a rejection of quashing. Go and face trial,” the bench told Rathore, while granting her liberty to raise her objections at the stage of framing of charges.

Rathore had moved the top court challenging the September 19 order of the Allahabad High Court , which refused to q

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