How can you retain somebody in jail for month for social media posts not naming anybody, requested the Bombay High Court on Monday because it pulled up the Maharashtra authorities over the arrest of a 21-year-old pharmacy scholar for his alleged derogatory posts towards NCP supremo Sharad Pawar. The HC, additional directed the Chief Public Prosecutor (PP) of Maharashtra Aruna Pai to hunt the recommendation of the state Home ministry for a ‘no-objection’ over the discharge of the scholar.
Last month, Bhamare was arrested as six First Investigation Reports (FIR) had been lodged towards him, following which he missed his exams.
Bhamare was booked beneath a number of provisions of the Indian Penal Code together with Sections 153, 153A, (Promoting enmity between teams) 500, 501 (defamation), 504 (prison intimidation), 505, 506 (statements resulting in public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Pointing out that by arresting the scholar, the state is damaging Sharad Pawar’s popularity within the course of, the two-judge bench, led by Justice SS Shinde stated, “If you start taking action like this, then you [will] end up damaging the name of the person who has received the second highest civilian award (Padma Vibhushan). [It is] unheard of that some student is kept in custody like this. Even the towering personality will not like that such a student be kept in jail.”
The bench additional identified the absurdity of the arrest as no identify was talked about within the alleged social media posts made by the scholar. “There are hundreds and thousands of tweets posted every day. Will you take cognizance of each and every tweet? We do not want FIRs like these…Nobody is named. And you (State) keep someone in prison for a month. How is this a basis of everything?” the HC stated, in accordance with Live Law.
The two-judge bench heard the petition by Subhash Jha, Bhamare’s counsel, searching for to cancel the FIR towards the scholar.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”