Mumbai, May 27 (UNI) The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to a 19-year-old student from Pune who was first rusticated by her college after her social media post that was critical of 'Operation Sindoor', India's counter-terror strikes in Pakistan on May 7, and she was later arrested by local police.
A vacation bench of Justices Gauri V Godse and Somasekhar Sundaresan, while granting bail to the second-year student of a course in Information Technology at Pune's Sinhgad Academy of Engineering College, directed her release on bail and also pulled up the Maharashtra government for its "radical" reaction to her post.
While observing that the girl had posted the comment, then deleted the same and apologised for it as well, the court held that the state government, instead of giving her a chance to reform, had got her arrested, thereby turning her into a criminal.