NEW DELHI: Castigated by the Madhya Pradesh excessive courtroom for his distasteful comment on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, state minister Kunwar Shah on Wednesday launched a video assertion apologizing for the comment.Shah’s apology got here hours after the excessive courtroom, which took suo motu cognisance of the controversial assertion, ordered the police to register an FIR in opposition to him. The Madhya Pradesh tribal affairs minister used the “language of gutters,” a division bench of justices Atul Shridharan and Anuradha Shukla noticed.Within the video, Shah mentioned, “I’m ashamed and saddened by my latest assertion which has damage the emotions of each group. I apologize from the underside of my coronary heart. Our nation’s ‘sister’ Sofiya Qureshi ji rose above caste and society whereas fulfilling her nationwide responsibility.”The BJP chief reiterated that he respects Colonel Qureshi “greater than I respect my very own sister.”He added, “Within the latest speech, I mentioned some unsuitable phrases because of which as we speak I’m ashamed of myself and I apologize to the society and the group. I respect ‘sister’ Sofiya, I’ve at all times revered the armed forces, and as we speak with folded palms, I apologize to everybody from the underside of my coronary heart.”Earlier, the excessive courtroom bench directed the state Director Basic of Police to file an FIR in opposition to Shah beneath numerous sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The courtroom directed the police to register the FIR by 6 pm, and to tell the bench about it.In a speech which has gone viral, Shah was seen saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi despatched “sister from the terrorists’ group” to kill them. He was speaking about “Operation Sindoor” of the Indian armed forces, who launched precision strikes in opposition to terrorists in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Could 7.Colonel Qureshi, together with overseas secretary Vikram Misri and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh gave common press briefings on Operation Sindoor.