India, Sept. 5 -- The Calcutta High Court has expressed "shock" over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "obnoxious" depiction in a poster Bengali actor Sreelekha Mitra had displayed at a students' protest rally here in July, but granted her protection from arrest in FIRs lodged over the matter.

Several people protested on the streets of Kolkata on July 24 against the alleged NEET examination paper leak, demanding the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, a day before the Union education minister stepped down in the wake of students' stir in Delhi and other parts of the country.

Mitra had joined the demonstration in the Esplanade area of central Kolkata and posed for a photograph while holding a poster. According to a complaint lodged by the BJ...