hc grants bail to 19-year-old held for post on india-pak clash
Mumbai, May 28 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted bail to a 19-year-old student from Pune arrested for her social media post on Indo-Pak hostilities and ordered her immediate release while rebuking the Maharashtra government for its "radical" reaction to her post. A vacation bench of justices Gauri Godse and Somasekhar Sundaresan said it was "absolutely shocking" that the student has been treated like a "hardcore criminal" by the government.
"This is an absolutely shocking case. Are the police bent upon ruining the girl's life? Is she a hardcore criminal?" the court remarked. At the most, the girl's act of sharing such a post can be termed as an "act of indiscretion" by a student, the bench said. P13...
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