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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.
Bombay high court
MUMBAI: 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.
The HC bench of Justices S S Shinde and MS Karnik said the tweet must be judged from the point of view of a reasonable strongminded person and it did not reveal any offence.
Lockdown tweet: HC orders quashing of FIR against Navi Mumbai resident
Sunaina Holey had approached the HC last year through her counsel Dr Abhinav Chandrachud, seeking that the FIR registered against her by the Mumbai police be quashed.
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MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said a tweet by a Navi Mumbai woman about a gathering of migrants at the Bandra terminus during the lockdown last year did not amount to any wrongdoing, and ordered for quashing of an FIR registered against her.
Sunaina Holey had approached the HC last year through her counsel Dr Abhinav Chandrachud, seeking that the FIR registered against her by the Mumbai police be quashed.
Justice Shinde said, “I am conscious of the fact that the passing of Pocso has been a significant and progressive step in securing children’s rights and furthering the cause of protecting children against sexual abuse. The letter and spirit of the law, which defines a child as anyone less than 18 years of age, is to protect children from sexual abuse.”
HC said the case was distinctive as the teenagers were first cousins. “A fact that cannot be overlooked,” said HC, is that “the victim had resiled from her statement” and even her mother was “unfriendly to the prosecution”.
HC heard the boy’s counsel, Manoj Mohite, who sought suspension of the sentence.