[COVID19] Calcutta HC Directs Police To Return Mobile Phone/SIM Card Seized From A Doctor Who Criticised Govt. For Deficient Protective Gear Supply [Read Order]

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2 April 2020 10:58 AM IST

"If an expression of opinion brings the government into disrepute, it cannot defend this allegation by intimidation of the person expressing the opinion by subjecting him to prolonged interrogation, threatening arrest seizing his mobile phone and SIM card and so on."

The Calcutta High Court has directed the police to return mobile phone and SIM card seized from a doctor who criticized the Government in Social Media for supply of allegedly deficient protective gear to doctors treating COVID19 patients. Dr. Indranil Khan, a private medical practitioner specialized in oncology, had made several Facebook posts concerning the allegedly deficient protective...

[COVID19] Calcutta HC Directs Police To Return Mobile Phone/SIM Card Seized From A Doctor Who Criticised Govt. For Deficient Protective Gear Supply [Read Order]

LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK

"If an expression of opinion brings the government into disrepute, it cannot defend this allegation by intimidation of the person expressing the opinion by subjecting him to prolonged interrogation, threatening arrest seizing his mobile phone and SIM card and so on."

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