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High Court sets aside expulsion of Pune student over Operation Sindoor post
The Bombay High Court on Monday set aside the order of expulsion of an engineering student from Pune for her social media post on India's precision strikes against terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) as part of Operation bench of Justices MS Karnik and NR Borkar observed that the principles of natural justice were not followed by the college while passing the order of expulsion of the student as she had not been given an opportunity to be 19-year-old student, a fourth-semester engineering student at the Sinhagad Academy of Engineering in Pune, had been expelled after she was arrested on May 9 for her social media post.
In her plea filed with the high court, the student challenged her expulsion from college as being "arbitrary and unlawful", as per a Live Law May 7, India carried out Operation Sindoor precision strikes, destroying nine terror launchpads and killing over 100 terrorists in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed the lives of 26 the armed forces launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, the student posted a message critical of the government on her social media account. She later claimed that the post led to a barrage of abuse and threats from users deleting the post the same day and issuing a public apology, an FIR was filed against her, accusing her of inciting communal tension and endangering national month, the High Court granted bail to the student, expressing shock over her arrest. During her time in custody, she missed two theoretical papers and a practical exam but was able to appear for the remaining exams after her engineering student has since written to the authorities, requesting permission to retake the missed examinations.
