'Not A Criminal': Court Orders Release Of Maharashtra Student Arrested Over Post On Op Sindoor

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Last Updated:May 27, 2025, 17:35 IST

The tribunal further criticised the assemblage for expelling the student, stressing that acquisition institutions should prioritise betterment implicit punishment.

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The Bombay High Court connected Tuesday ordered the merchandise of a 19-year-old pistillate engineering student, who was arrested implicit a societal media station connected ‘Operation Sindoor’.

Currently lodged successful Yerwada Central Prison successful Pune, the pupil besides faced rustication from her assemblage implicit the post. She was studying astatine Pune’s Sinhgad Academy of Engineering—an unaided backstage assemblage affiliated with Savitribai Phule Pune University.

“This is perfectly shocking. It appears similar constabulary officers are bent upon ruining her life. Equally the college," Justice Gauri Godse remarked during the hearing.

Earlier successful the day, a abrogation seat comprising Justices Gauri Godse and Somasekhar Sundaresan rapped the Maharashtra authorities and instructed the student’s counsel to record a bail exertion without delay, assuring that it would beryllium considered and granted today.

“The miss has posted thing and past realised her mistake and apologised. Instead of giving her a accidental to reform, the authorities authorities has arrested her and turned her into a criminal," PTI quoted the seat saying.

The tribunal made the remarks portion proceeding the student’s plea challenging her rustication.

“Someone is expressing their opinion, and this is however you ruin her life? A student’s beingness has been ruined," it said.

“How tin the authorities apprehension a pupil similar this? Does the authorities privation students to halt expressing their opinions? Such a extremist absorption from the authorities volition further radicalise the person," the tribunal said.

During the hearing, an further authorities pleader Priyabhushan Kakade appearing for the State said that the pupil could look for her assemblage exams with a constabulary escort.

Reacting to Kakade’s appeal, Justice Godse remarked: “What is this Mr Kakade? She isn’t a criminal. She cannot beryllium asked to look with constabulary astir her. She has to beryllium released. She cannot beryllium stopped from appearing successful exams. She cannot beryllium asked to look with constabulary astir her".

The seat further criticised the assemblage for expelling the girl, stressing that acquisition institutions should prioritise betterment implicit punishment.

The tribunal observed that their relation goes beyond academics, encompassing the work to usher students toward idiosyncratic development, and noted that the miss deserved an accidental to contiguous her broadside of the story.

The pupil from Pune’s Sinhgad Academy of Engineering was arrested connected May 9, implicit a arguable Instagram repost related to India-Pakistan tensions aft Operation Sindoor.

She argued that her rustication from the institute implicit the societal media station was “arbitrary and unlawful."

In her petition filed done Advocate Farhana Shah, the pupil alleged that the institute failed to contented a show-cause announcement anterior to her rustication.

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