Bombay High Court Refuses To Quash FIR Against Kashmiri Professor Booked For WhatsApp Status Calling Abrogation Of Article 370 "Black Day For J&K" https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/all-high-courts/bombay-high-court-professor-abrogation-article-370-black-day-jammu-kashmir-whatsapp-status-fir-dissent-criticism-analysis-democracy-226339
When I look at the court observation that .. “In our view, this message has the tendency to play with emotions of different groups of people in India as there are strong feelings of contrasting nature about status of Jammu and Kashmir in India and, therefore, one has to tread cautiously in such a field, lest the emotions may reach up to sucha level as to bring about consequences or reasonable possibility of consequences visiting as envisaged in Section 153-A of IPC,” the court added.
Comments of WhatsApp: .. It looks like there is a conservative Collective consciousness in the benches, that is uncomfortable with liberal ideas, which seems to agree that "khatre mein hain" logic...
the observation “So, if any criticism is to be made, it must be upon evaluation of all pros and cons of the situation and backed by reason,” means that you cannot have any criticism on "strong feelings of contrasting nature" on any short messaging app, like WA, Instagram, Twitter.. "evaluation of all pros and con" and back up of "reason" should be "seen" and not heard in the courts!
