Karnataka High Court stays probe against man for tweet on Bantwal woman’s murder case
The Karnataka High Court has stayed criminal investigations against a man for a tweet regarding a murder case in Bantwal. The court ruled that the tweet did not contain explicit communal references and that criminality cannot be inferred through imagination.
Observing that “courts cannot permit criminality to be inferred by imagination when the words themselves refuse to yield such meaning”, the High Court of Karnataka has stayed investigation into two separate criminal cases registered against a man at two different police stations for a single tweet related to recent murder of a young woman at the Bantwal bus stand in Dakshina Kannada district.
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