INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
It is nothing but a mode of communication with known persons
One puts up the status to get a reaction and most of them crave for support
Nowadays, people are checking WhatsApp status now and then
and Valmiki Menezes said.Stating that they had examined the entire material on record, the bench pointed out that the contents of the police
It can be a picture or video of what you are doing, thinking or something you have seen
lodged against 27-year-old petitioner Kishor Landkar on March 23, stating that the latter had put up a WhatsApp status, where he posed a
query to be searched on Google
He had even claimed that anyone searching for his post on Google would get a shocking result
Landkar under Sections 295-A of IPC, Section 3(1)(v) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (Atrocities
Act), and Section 67-A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.The petitioner moved the HC through counsel SS Dhengale praying for quashing
of FIR under Section 482 of CrPC, contending that he did not deliberately display the status to outrage the feeling of any class
According to him, WhatsApp status can only be seen by persons who have saved his mobile number
He argued that neither the provisions of the Atrocities Act nor the IT Act would apply in this case.Stressing that the petitioner cannot
shed his primary responsibility by claiming limited circulation of his WhatsApp status, the judges said there is no justification for him to
There is no denial that he has kept the WhatsApp status as alleged in the FIR
