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Pune Engineering Student Held Over ‘Operation Sindoor’ Post Appears for Exam After HC Bail

Her exam attendance under tight security was enabled by a bench that condemned her arrest as “absolutely shocking”

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City-based Sinhgad Academy of Engineering has made special arrangements for the second-year IT student to appear for her semester examination. (HT)
The court also stayed the rustication order issued by Sinhgad Academy of Engineering, where she is a second-year student, allowing her to take her remaining exams. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)
The 19-year-old student from Pune attended her semester examination after getting bail.

Overview

  • The student was released from Yerwada Central Jail on May 27 after a vacation bench granted her bail and stayed her college rustication.
  • She sat her semester exam on May 29 in a separate room at Sinhgad Academy under the supervision of two security guards and a designated invigilator.
  • Justices Gauri Godse and Somasekhar Sundaresan rebuked state authorities for a “radical” overreaction that treated her like a hardened criminal.
  • Her arrest on May 9 under multiple Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections followed the reposting and swift deletion of a social media message critical of the government’s Operation Sindoor.
  • The High Court allowed her to apply to Savitribai Phule Pune University to reappear for two missed papers and two practicals and listed the matter for a June 9 hearing.