In a minor reprieve for Shirin Dalvi, former editor of Urdu newspaper Awadhnama, the Bombay High Court on Monday directed the police not to file a charge sheet in the FIRs registered against her after the newspaper republished controversial caricatures from French weekly Charlie Hebdo.

A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and Nutan Sardessai today admitted the petition filed by Dalvi, challenging the complaints lodged against her at various places in the state for allegedly spreading malicious content and hurting religious sentiments.