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Guest post byPRANESH PRAKASH
This morning, there was a short report in the Mumbai Mirror about two girls having been arrested for comments one of them made, and the other ‘liked’, on Facebook about Bal Thackeray:
Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old girl for questioning the total shutdown in the city for Bal Thackeray’s funeral on her Facebook account. Another girl who ‘liked’ the comment was also arrested.
The duo were booked under Section 295 (a) of the IPC (for hurting religious sentiments) and Section 64 (a) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Though the girl withdrew her comment and apologised, a mob of some 2,000 Shiv Sena workers attacked and ransacked her uncle’s orthopaedic clinic at Palghar.
“Her comment said people like Thackeray are born and die daily and one should not observe a bandh for that,” said PI Uttam Sonawane.
What provisions of law were used?
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Hmmm – I agree with one of the comments to the original post `shades of a fascist state` – that went through my mind when reading the blog. I am at present reading a novel that is partly set in Stalinist Russia and Hitler`s Germany – do we never learn?
If FB posts are to be considered as a crime, then what about the public comments by Politicians? They should be hanged….waht abt the ppl who vandalized the clinic..its in plain sight who hurt whose feelings..as of the comment,it is one of the most sensible comment i’ve have read in a couple of days…kudos to shaheen..between the figure of 2000 exaggerated..its smthing around 20 or so..max 200 from what i’ve known..
I read this post many months later, with so much that has happened on this issue.
All I can hope for is a brighter future ahead. Touche!