Through PTI
AHMEDABAD: Filmmaker Avinash Das, arrested via Gujarat Police in a case associated with sharing on Twitter a photograph of Union House Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, was once launched on bail via a court docket right here on Thursday.
Metropolitan Justice of the Peace M V Chauhan granted bail to Das at the situation that he shall stay provide prior to the Ahmedabad Crime Department right through the primary week of each and every month till the rate sheet is filed.
The crime department had arrested Das on Wednesday after selecting him up from his Mumbai place of abode an afternoon prior to.
The filmmaker had additionally been booked for ‘insulting nationwide honour’ via sharing on Instagram and Fb a photograph of a portray of a girl draped within the nationwide flag.
The court docket had remanded him within the crime department custody for someday.
When he was once produced prior to the court docket once more on Thursday, Das’s legal professional sought bail for him.
The filmmaker didn’t proportion on social media any morphed or pretend pictures, argued recommend Uvesh Malik.
The portray of a girl dressed in the tricolor was once the unique advent of Canada-based artist Nimisha Bhanot and it have been placed on show right through a seminar in Canada about Indian tradition and ladies, he stated.
Das had simply shared the unique portray (its photograph) in 2017 which failed to quantity to any crime since the piece of artwork was once no longer morphed or distorted, recommend Malik argued.
As to the photograph of Shah and Singhal, Malik argued that it have been taken right through a public serve as and it had already long past viral when Das tweeted it.
Even the crime department, within the FIR, admitted that the photograph was once no longer pretend, he stated.
Sharing unique artwork and already printed photograph was once 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 pal #AvinashDas @avinashonly was once arrested lately morning via crime department of Gujarat Police . His anticipatory bail utility is pending in Preferrred Court docket . #ISTANDWITHAVINASHDAS percent.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 Department registered a First Knowledge Record towards the filmmaker beneath segment 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Prevention of Insults to Nationwide Honour Act and Knowledge Generation Act over his social media posts.
The FIR towards 46-year-old Das was once registered in June after he shared a photograph appearing Singhal, who have been arrested via the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case, chatting with Shah.
As according to the FIR, within the caption with the photograph Das claimed the image was once taken a couple of days prior to Singhal’s arrest, whilst it was once in reality from 2017.
This was once performed as a way to tarnish Shah’s symbol, the police alleged.
AHMEDABAD: Filmmaker Avinash Das, arrested via Gujarat Police in a case associated with sharing on Twitter a photograph of Union House Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, was once launched on bail via a court docket right here on Thursday.
Metropolitan Justice of the Peace M V Chauhan granted bail to Das at the situation that he shall stay provide prior to the Ahmedabad Crime Department right through the primary week of each and every month till the rate sheet is filed.
The crime department had arrested Das on Wednesday after selecting him up from his Mumbai place of abode an afternoon prior to.
The filmmaker had additionally been booked for ‘insulting nationwide honour’ via sharing on Instagram and Fb a photograph of a portray of a girl draped within the nationwide flag.
The court docket had remanded him within the crime department custody for someday.
When he was once produced prior to the court docket once more on Thursday, Das’s legal professional sought bail for him.
The filmmaker didn’t proportion on social media any morphed or pretend pictures, argued recommend Uvesh Malik.
The portray of a girl dressed in the tricolor was once the unique advent of Canada-based artist Nimisha Bhanot and it have been placed on show right through a seminar in Canada about Indian tradition and ladies, he stated.
Das had simply shared the unique portray (its photograph) in 2017 which failed to quantity to any crime since the piece of artwork was once no longer morphed or distorted, recommend Malik argued.
As to the photograph of Shah and Singhal, Malik argued that it have been taken right through a public serve as and it had already long past viral when Das tweeted it.
Even the crime department, within the FIR, admitted that the photograph was once no longer pretend, he stated.
Sharing unique artwork and already printed photograph was once 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 pal #AvinashDas @avinashonly was once arrested lately morning via crime department of Gujarat Police . His anticipatory bail utility is pending in Preferrred Court docket . #ISTANDWITHAVINASHDAS percent.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 Department registered a First Knowledge Record towards the filmmaker beneath segment 469 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code in addition to provisions of the Prevention of Insults to Nationwide Honour Act and Knowledge Generation Act over his social media posts.
The FIR towards 46-year-old Das was once registered in June after he shared a photograph appearing Singhal, who have been arrested via the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case, chatting with Shah.
As according to the FIR, within the caption with the photograph Das claimed the image was once taken a couple of days prior to Singhal’s arrest, whilst it was once in reality from 2017.
This was once performed as a way to tarnish Shah’s symbol, the police alleged.
