Justice Shinde said that booking the accused in the present case was possibly more damaging to the reputation of Pawar against whom the tweets were made.
“If you start taking actions like this, then you end up damaging the name of the person who has received second highest civilian award (Pawar). Even the towering personality (Pawar) will not like that such student being kept in jail. We do not want the towering personalities reputation should go down,” the judge opined.
Before concluding the hearing, Justice Shinde directed the public prosecutor to take instructions from the State Home Department and make a statement of no objection for releasing Bhamre from custody.
“In our humble opinion grace of the state will be saved if you come and make this statement” the Bench said in conclusion.
The plea will be heard again on June 16.
Source: Barandbench
