Arrested for tweeting pic of Shah with jailed IAS officer, filmmaker Avinash Das will get bail
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AHMEDABAD: Filmmaker Avinash Das, arrested by Gujarat Police in a case associated to sharing on Twitter a photograph of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, was launched on bail by a courtroom right here on Thursday.
Metropolitan Magistrate M V Chauhan granted bail to Das on the situation that he shall stay current earlier than the Ahmedabad Crime Branch in the course of the first week of each month till the cost sheet is filed.
The crime department had arrested Das on Wednesday after choosing him up from his Mumbai residence a day earlier than.
The filmmaker had additionally been booked for ‘insulting nationwide honour’ by sharing on Instagram and Facebook a photograph of a portray of a lady draped within the nationwide flag.
The courtroom had remanded him within the crime department custody for someday.
When he was produced earlier than the courtroom once more on Thursday, Das’s lawyer sought bail for him.
The filmmaker didn’t share on social media any morphed or pretend photographs, argued advocate Uvesh Malik.
The portray of a lady sporting the tricolor was the unique creation of Canada-based artist Nimisha Bhanot and it had been placed on show throughout a seminar in Canada about Indian tradition and girls, he stated.
Das had merely shared the unique portray (its picture) in 2017 which didn’t quantity to any crime as a result of the piece of artwork was not morphed or distorted, advocate Malik argued.
As to the picture of Shah and Singhal, Malik argued that it had been taken throughout a public perform and it had already gone viral when Das tweeted it.
Even the crime department, within the FIR, admitted that the picture was not pretend, he stated.
Sharing authentic artwork and already printed picture was no crime, Malik argued.
After listening to the arguments, the Justice of the Peace granted bail to Das on a private bond of Rs 10,000.
Director buddy #AvinashDas @avinashonly was arrested immediately morning by crime department of Gujarat Police . His anticipatory bail software is pending in Supreme Court . #ISTANDWITHAVINASHDAS pic.twitter.com/qlDw1wVQ9N
— DHOOPASHWINI (@DhoopAshwini) July 19, 2022
Das had directed the 2017 movie “Anaarkali of Aarah”, starring Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra and Pankaj Tripathi, and the 2021 film “Raat Baaki Hai”.
He had additionally helmed the Netflix collection “She”.
The Ahmedabad Crime Branch registered a First Information Report in opposition to the filmmaker beneath part 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and Information Technology Act over his social media posts.
The FIR in opposition to 46-year-old Das was registered in June after he shared a photograph exhibiting Singhal, who had been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case, speaking to Shah.
As per the FIR, within the caption with the picture Das claimed the image was taken a couple of days earlier than Singhal’s arrest, whereas it was truly from 2017.
This was accomplished with the intention to tarnish Shah’s picture, the police alleged.
AHMEDABAD: Filmmaker Avinash Das, arrested by Gujarat Police in a case associated to sharing on Twitter a photograph of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, was launched on bail by a courtroom right here on Thursday.
Metropolitan Magistrate M V Chauhan granted bail to Das on the situation that he shall stay current earlier than the Ahmedabad Crime Branch in the course of the first week of each month till the cost sheet is filed.
The crime department had arrested Das on Wednesday after choosing him up from his Mumbai residence a day earlier than.
The filmmaker had additionally been booked for ‘insulting nationwide honour’ by sharing on Instagram and Facebook a photograph of a portray of a lady draped within the nationwide flag.
The courtroom had remanded him within the crime department custody for someday.
When he was produced earlier than the courtroom once more on Thursday, Das’s lawyer sought bail for him.
The filmmaker didn’t share on social media any morphed or pretend photographs, argued advocate Uvesh Malik.
The portray of a lady sporting the tricolor was the unique creation of Canada-based artist Nimisha Bhanot and it had been placed on show throughout a seminar in Canada about Indian tradition and girls, he stated.
Das had merely shared the unique portray (its picture) in 2017 which didn’t quantity to any crime as a result of the piece of artwork was not morphed or distorted, advocate Malik argued.
As to the picture of Shah and Singhal, Malik argued that it had been taken throughout a public perform and it had already gone viral when Das tweeted it.
Even the crime department, within the FIR, admitted that the picture was not pretend, he stated.
Sharing authentic artwork and already printed picture was no crime, Malik argued.
After listening to the arguments, the Justice of the Peace granted bail to Das on a private bond of Rs 10,000.
Director buddy #AvinashDas @avinashonly was arrested immediately morning by crime department of Gujarat Police . His anticipatory bail software is pending in Supreme Court . #ISTANDWITHAVINASHDAS pic.twitter.com/qlDw1wVQ9N— DHOOPASHWINI (@DhoopAshwini) July 19, 2022 Das had directed the 2017 movie “Anaarkali of Aarah”, starring Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra and Pankaj Tripathi, and the 2021 film “Raat Baaki Hai”.
He had additionally helmed the Netflix collection “She”.
The Ahmedabad Crime Branch registered a First Information Report in opposition to the filmmaker beneath part 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and Information Technology Act over his social media posts.
The FIR in opposition to 46-year-old Das was registered in June after he shared a photograph exhibiting Singhal, who had been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case, speaking to Shah.
As per the FIR, within the caption with the picture Das claimed the image was taken a couple of days earlier than Singhal’s arrest, whereas it was truly from 2017.
This was accomplished with the intention to tarnish Shah’s picture, the police alleged.
