Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar s controversial tweet and unusual clarification
Mirror Online / Updated: Jun 3, 2021, 13:42 IST
Mayor Kishori Pednekar.
Amid the ongoing war of words between the ruling Shiv Sena and the Opposition over the purchase of vaccines by the BMC,
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar has sparked a fresh controversy.
The
Mayor allegedly used objectionable language against a Twitter user who posed a question about the city civic body s global COVID-19 vaccine supply
contract while commenting on her video posted by a Marathi news channel.
Soon after the tweet went viral, it was deleted.
The
BJP also slammed the Mayor for her remarks.
Bombay high court
MUMBAI: Observing that Mumbai police’s approach to a tweet by Navi Numbai resident Sunaina Holey was “hypersensitive and overcautious”, the Bombay high court on Wednesday quashed a criminal case against her for her social media post last April on a gathering of migrant workers outside Bandra Terminus.
She was charged with promoting communal disharmony during the nationwide lockdown, reports Swati Deshpande.
The HC said the tweet does not disclose any guilty mind or intention of Holey (39) to commit the alleged offence under IPC Section 153A to promote enmity between different groups. The case against her was “too far-fetched”, said the court, adding that neither has any community nor any religion been named in the tweet.
The Bombay HC bench said that woman s tweet had not named any particular community and did not create any enmity between communities.
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday quashed a criminal case against Navi Numbai resident Sunaina Holey over her alleged social media post last April related to a large gathering near Bandra Masjid in Mumbai.
The case registered last April against her by the Azad Maidan police station was for allegedly promoting communal disharmony.
She said she had tagged chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son, Aditya Thackeray, a minister and former CM Devendra Fadnavis to bring the situation to the attention of the leaders.