Shivani Thakur
Published on: June 14, 2022, at 15:35 IST
The Maharashtra Government was chastised by the Bombay High Court over the arrest of a 21-year-old student for allegedly making a nasty social media post about NCP Chairman Sharad Pawar, with the Court asking if the government takes notice of every unpleasant social media post.
The HC also noted that the veteran leader, Sharad Pawar would himself not like that the student is kept in jail.
The student, Nikhil Bhamre had filed a Petition in the Court challenging the case filed against him and seeking immediate release. During the hearing, observed that the said that the post doesn’t mention the name of anyone.
“Nobody is named…and you (government) keep someone in prison for a month. How is this the basis of everything? There are 100s and 1000s of tweets posted every day. Will you take cognizance of each and every tweet? We do not want FIRs like these. Some student is kept in custody like this,” the Court noted.
“If you start taking actions like this, then you end up damaging the name of the person (Pawar) who has received the second-highest civilian award (Padma Vibhushan). Even the towering personality (Pawar) will not like that such a student be kept in jail. We do not want the towering personality’s reputation to go down,” Justice Shinde further noted.
Nashik Police detained Nikhil Bhamre for an offensive tweet directed at NCP chief Sharad Pawar. Bhamre, a resident of Satana in Nashik district, was later apprehended by Mumbai Police.
The Court adjourned the matter till June 16.