Lois Sofia, the research scholar who was arrested and subsequently released on bail for raising slogans against the BJP in the presence of the party’s State unit president Tamilisai Soundararajan, filed a petition before a magistrate’s court here on Thursday, seeking return of her passport seized by the police.

Lois Sophia’s advocates to file contempt petition against judge. Moreover, the magistrate also refused to receive the bail petition at her residence saying that she would not receive bail pleas at home.