‘Mumbai police best after Scotland Yard’: Court asks woman to cooperate

The Bombay excessive court docket has directed Sunaina Holey, a resident of Navi Mumbai, who has been booked by the Mumbai and Palghar police for making offensive remarks on social media in opposition to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and state minister and his son Aaditya in July to look earlier than the Cyber Cell of Mumbai police at Bandra Kurla Complex on November 2.

The Navi Mumbai resident has approached the excessive court docket to quash the FIRs in opposition to her. Earlier, the court docket had directed a Nagpur resident Sameet Thakkar booked below comparable fees to cooperate with the investigation and seem earlier than the cyber cell on the BKC as properly.

A division bench of justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik, whereas listening to the appliance of Holey to quash the three FIRs registered in opposition to her, was knowledgeable by assistant public prosecutor JP Yagnik, showing for the state authorities and police, that three FIRs have been registered in opposition to Holey after a number of individuals – together with Rohan Chavan, a member of Yuva Sena – lodged complaints in opposition to her for the offensive remarks.

Holey was booked below sections 505 (Punishment for statements conducting public mischief) and 153 (A) (Punishment for selling enmity between totally different non secular teams) of the Indian Penal Code and different provisions of the IT Act.

Yagnik additional submitted that although Holey had been issued notices below part 41-A of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), she had not appeared earlier than the involved investigating officer of BKC Cyber Police station in Mumbai and therefore sought instructions of the court docket to make her achieve this on the earliest.

Advocate Dr Abhinav Chandrachud, showing for Holey, stated his shopper was unwell and therefore couldn’t seem on the sooner event however was prepared to report back to the BKC Cyber Cell on November 2. The court docket accepted the identical and requested her to be current at 11 am.

Earlier in September, Holey had moved the court docket searching for safety within the type of an software for pre arrest bail. The court docket had nevertheless refused to grant her safety after the police had assured the court docket that Holey wouldn’t be arrested if she was prepared to cooperate and report back to Azad Maidan and Tulinj police station, respectively. After she didn’t report back to the stated police stations, the investigators sought her presence on the BKC Cyber Cell.

After listening to the submissions and accepting the peace of mind of Holey, the court docket noticed, “Job of police officers is difficult during these times. Sometimes they have more than 12-hour shifts. Then they have to do bandobast for morchas and processions. With all these odds, the Mumbai police is considered as one of the best in the world after Scotland Yard.” In mild of this, the bench noticed that Holey was anticipated to increase cooperation and her lawyer agreed to it.