Girl arrested for harmless Facebook comment

What has happened to this country? A loosely worded vague IT Act lets police to arrest any innocent person. Bandh for a day may be a relaxing holiday, but the on-going tension of probable bandh since Thursday, actual shut down on the weekend does cause inconvenience. And everyone has freedom of speech - a fact completely ignore by the govt, police, netas. Hatred speeches by politicians are not considered to instigate or annoy or insult. But a view on bandh leads to arrest of the common man. Time & again, whether it is a cartoon, tweet or Facebook status, high levels of intolerance, vague & biased interpretation of new laws is saddening. Are thieves, murders, rapists, terrorists, goons, mobs, etc so less in number that police now arrest the common man for expressing his or her views on social media platforms? Has Bombay turned into a city that is scared of mobs & lost its freedom of expression?

At least an ex-SC judge dropped a sensible email to Chief Minister of Maharashtra, which has not been answered.

"To my mind it is absurd to say that protesting against a bandh hurts religious sentiments. Freedom of speech is a fundamental right. We are living in a democracy, not a fascist dictatorship. This arrest itself is a criminal act... Hence, I request you to immediately order the suspension and arrest of police personnel (however, high they may be), failing which I will deem it that you as a chief minister are unable to run the state.

Freedom Lost.