When Manoj Pimple and Aditya Chavhan woke up at their respective homes in Nagpur last Monday, they had no idea that a police team would have travelled more than 700 kilometres from Gadchiroli to their residence, just to take them into custody for tweets against the Shiv Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra.
They were granted bail the next day, with the court terming their arrest – based on a complaint from a 22-year-old contractor – as illegal with the due process for detention not followed by the police teams.
