Ershad Sultan was arrested on June 30.
Kolkata:
The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday acquitted an individual who was arrested on the cost of criticising a state minister on social media.
A single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha directed that Ershad Sultan be launched instantly.
The matter associated to a gathering of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with members of her cupboard, bureaucrats, law enforcement officials and heads of the totally different municipalities within the state on June 28.
The administration organized for the dwell streaming of your entire assembly. Throughout the assembly, the arrested particular person made a remark accusing West Bengal minister Arup Roy and a few native Trinamool Congress leaders of encouraging unlawful development in Howrah by illegally filling up water our bodies.
The police registered a FIR towards Sultan the identical day and he was arrested on June 30. His relations approached the Excessive Courtroom towards the arrest and the matter got here up for listening to on Wednesday.
Throughout the listening to, Justice Sinha raised some questions on the arrest. Her first query was whether or not the police may arrest anybody if the latter complains or expresses a grievance towards anybody. She additionally questioned whether or not the arrest was prompted by a criticism from the minister.
Lastly she noticed that the police has unnecessarily intervened within the matter on the premise of a criticism by a 3rd particular person.
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