New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra's plea seeking permission to join police interrogation through video-conferencing in a case over her allegedly provocative Facebook posts, telling her that having "taken the plunge into politics", she could not shy away from appearing before investigators merely because she feared eggs being hurled at her.

"You are a member of Parliament? Having taken the plunge into politics, you fear eggs? When our freedom fighters have taken bullets on their chest? These are applications that should not come before this court at all," a bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu remarked while declining to interfere with an order of the Calcut...