The Delhi police have provided protection to suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma and her family after an FIR was registered on a complaint that she was getting death threats over her controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad.
A case was filed with Delhi police against unidentified people after the BJP spokesperson had sought security citing harassment and threats she had been receiving, Indian media reported.
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Sharma's alleged derogatory remarks on the Prophet during a debate on national television have triggered a massive diplomatic row with a number of Muslim nations.
Earlier, a Kuwaiti supermarket pulled Indian products from its shelves and Iran became the latest Middle Eastern country to summon the Indian ambassador as a row grew on Monday over a ruling party official's remarks about the Prophet Mohammed.
Workers at the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a protest against comments denounced as "Islamophobic".
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries in the region, as well as the influential Al-Azhar University in Cairo, have condemned the remarks by a spokeswoman for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, who has since been suspended.
