It took the sagacity and legal force of the Bombay High Court to restore the dignity and academic life of a 19-year-old engineering student and make the Pune police see the absence of reason in arresting and jailing her.

The second-year student of Sinhgad Academy of Engineering near Pune found herself lodged in Yerawada Jail facing an FIR over an insignificant issue, raising questions about the priorities of the state police that did not file an FIR for the heinous murder of the sarpanch of Massajog village for weeks.

She was in the dock for sharing a lightly critical post on her Instagram account on May 7 about the India-Pakistan war, which she deleted within........

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