The Bombay High Court recently quashed an FIR against a man accused of sharing an “objectionable post” on WhatsApp, saying that not every controversial social media post should be interpreted as an attempt to incite unrest, Livelaw reported.
A division bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Santosh Chapalgaonkar pronounced the judgement in a plea filed by one Dnyaneshwar Wakale, 34, of Aurangabad, who was booked for forwarding a post against Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar to his friends on WhatsApp in August 2018. Wakale was booked under sections 295-A (outraging religious feelings) and 153-A (promoting enmity between two groups) of the IPC.
