Kolkata, June 5 -- After Calcutta High Court granted interim bail to law student Sharmistha Panoli, West Bengal Assembly Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday said, "justice has been served today".

In a post on X, Suvendu Adhikari said, "Justice has been served today - Sharmistha Panoli, a law student, aged about 22 years, has been released on interim bail by the Hon'ble High Court at Calcutta."

He called her arrest "police atrocities" and said she was wrongly arrested for exercising her right to free speech. He accused Kolkata Police of acting to please political leaders.

"This is a case of police atrocities as an innocent young lady, for using her freedom of speech and expression, has been illegally arreste...