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List of Incidents in Maharashtra -> Censorship -> 2012
Cops book youth for FB post: city shutdown for Thackeray funeral
Ref: http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2012111920121119043152921e12f57e1/In-Palghar-cops-book-21yearold-for-FB-post.html
Palghar, Maharashtra

Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old girl for questioning the total shutdown in the city for Bal Thackeray"™s funeral on her Facebook account. Another girl who "˜liked"™ the comment was also arrested.

The duo were booked under Section 295 (a) of the IPC (for hurting religious sentiments) and Section 64 (a) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Though the girl withdrew her comment and apologised, a mob of some 2,000 Shiv Sena workers attacked and ransacked her uncle"™s orthopaedic clinic at Palghar.

"Her comment said people like Thackeray are born and die daily and one should not observe a bandh for that," said PI Uttam Sonawane.