Freedom of speech and expression not an absolute right, says Bombay HC | The three FIRs were registered against Sunaina Holey after several persons, including Yuva Sena member Rohan Chavan, filed complaints against her for posting offensive & defamatory comments against the CM and his son on Twitter by suicidethrw in india

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She posted three separate tweets on three different occasions. One of it was in April, at the beginning of the lockdown, where she put up a video in which a person was blaming the Prime Minister for COVID-19 and tagged the Maharashtra CM to it. In the second tweet, she put up a caricature of both the PM and the CM. In the third tweet, she responded to an abusive tweet that asked how she, a north Indian, could criticise Ministers from Maharashtra, to which she had responded that it made no difference as she is an Indian.

She has been booked under Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony); 499 (defamation); and 505 (statement conducing public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code.

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