India, July 15 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a public interest petition seeking action against social media influencer Nazia Elahi Khan over her alleged derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad, observing that the plea appeared to be an attempt to "politicise" the issue instead of pursuing remedies available under the law.

A bench of justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe questioned the maintainability of the petition under Article 32 of the Constitution, saying the petitioner ought to first invoke the remedies available under the criminal law and the Information Technology framework.

When counsel for the petitioner argued that there was "no regulation of podcasts" and that all kinds of objectionable remarks wer...