Sonakshi Sinha filed a complaint at Mumbai’s Bandra police station after someone circulated her morphed nde pictures on social media. Police arrested Aryan Deepak Jain in Delhi on Saturday. However, a court ordered his release, saying the arrest was unlawful because officers failed to follow mandatory legal procedures during transit.
Sonakshi Sinha Morphed Pics Case Update
Several Bollywood actresses have fallen victim to morphed photographs, and Dabangg star Sonakshi Sinha is the latest celebrity to be targeted with fake obscene images. Reportedly, the Heeramandi actress recently approached the Mumbai Police to take legal action against the person allegedly circulating her morphed n*de pictures on social media. A Delhi-based man was later arrested and brought to Mumbai. However, a court ordered his release on Saturday, declaring his arrest "unlawful". Read on for all the details in the case.
Sonakshi Sinha Morphed Pics Case
As per a report by India Today, Sonakshi Sinha recently filed a complaint at Mumbai's Bandra police station over her morphed photographs. She alleged that a Delhi-based man had been circulating n*de images of her on social media platforms.
The police swung into action and identified Aryan Deepak Jain as the accused. He was arrested on Saturday morning from the Jagatpuri Police Station area in Delhi's Shahdara and subsequently brought to Mumbai.
The Mumbai Police produced Jain before a magistrate at the Bandra court and sought three days of custody. The officials told the court that they wanted to trace the electronic device allegedly used to create the morphed n*de pictures of Sonakshi.
Sonakshi Sinha
However, the court rejected their request and ordered the accused's release. The magistrate reportedly observed that the police had failed to follow the mandatory legal procedure while bringing him from Delhi to Mumbai.
Accused Released After 'Unlawful Arrest'
During the hearing, the defence strongly opposed the police's request for custody, arguing that the arrest had violated mandatory legal safeguards. The lawyers submitted that the police had neither served the required notice nor informed Jain of the grounds for his arrest. They also pointed out that he had been taken out of Delhi's jurisdiction and flown to Mumbai without first being produced before a local magistrate.
The defence further alleged that the police had acted with unusual haste because of the complainant's celebrity status. Meanwhile, Jain maintained that he had committed no offence and argued that the sections invoked in the case were not prima facie applicable to the allegations.
The court noted that Jain had not been produced before the nearest magistrate in Delhi following his arrest and had instead been brought directly to Mumbai. "Thus, it appears that the police have directly brought the accused from Delhi before this Court without following the procedure of production before the nearest Magistrate," it observed. It also pointed out that the investigating agency had failed to offer a satisfactory explanation for not following the required procedure.
While examining the legal safeguards governing arrests, the magistrate noted that the offences in question carried a maximum punishment of seven years' imprisonment. The court also clarified that the requirement of further investigation, by itself, could not justify an arrest or detention without compliance with the prescribed legal procedures.
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