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Ex-TISS student moves Bombay HC for pre-arrest bail
Former TISS student Kamakhya Das (23), denied bail by a sessions court on August 7, has approached the Bombay high court. On Thursday, Justice Prafulla Khubalkar posted his plea for hearing on…
The Story in Brief
Former TISS student Kamakhya Das (23), denied bail by a sessions court on August 7, has approached the Bombay high court. On Thursday, Justice Prafulla Khubalkar posted his plea for hearing on Friday after advocate Vijay Hiremath mentioned it. Das faces charges of raising inflammatory slogans at an unauthorised campus event on October 10, 2025, commemorating the first death anniversary of late DU professor G N Saibaba.
The FIR, filed on October 13, 2025, alleged 10-12 students assembled without permission, lit candles, read poems, and raised slogans. The sessions court granted bail to seven other students, noting that paying homage to Saibaba, acquitted in a UAPA case, was not illegal. Das denies the slogans and argues that possessing CPI (Maoist) literature on his phone is not a crime. Police claim he did not cooperate, and the sessions judge ordered custodial interrogation.
The Indian Opinion
The case risks conflating political views with criminal intent. Possessing Maoist literature or attending a memorial is not automatically incitement, yet the prosecution seeks custodial interrogation over deleted phone data. The sessions court itself saw no crime in paying homage to Saibaba. The real test lies in whether the Bombay HC distinguishes between inflammatory speech and mere ideological sympathy, or whether it bows to the narrative that every left-leaning student is a potential threat.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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