Mumbai court frees man held over Sonakshi Sinha's morphed pics, flags illegal arrest

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A Mumbai court released Aryan Deepak Jain after police brought him from Delhi in the Sonakshi Sinha morphed photographs case. The magistrate ruled that mandatory arrest procedures and BNSS safeguards had not been followed.

An accused arrested in Delhi in connection with the circulation of morphed nude photographs of actor Sonakshi Sinha was released from custody by a Mumbai court on Saturday after it held his arrest illegal.

The case was registered at Mumbai's Bandra police station yesterday, following a complaint by Sonakshi Sinha claiming that a Delhi-based accused had circulated morphed photographs of her on social media.

The accused, identified as Aryan Deepak Jain, was arrested today at around 10.11 am from Jagatpuri Police Station in Delhi's Shahdara area. He was subsequently brought to Mumbai and produced before a magistrate at the Bandra court.

However, the magistrate ordered his release, observing that the police had failed to follow the mandatory legal procedure while bringing him from Delhi to Mumbai.

During the hearing, the magistrate noted that Jain had not been produced before the nearest magistrate in Delhi before being brought within the jurisdiction of the Bandra court.

"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," the court observed.

It further pointed out that the investigating agency had failed to provide a satisfactory explanation for not complying with this requirement.

The Bandra police had sought three days of custody of Jain, primarily to trace the medium or electronic device used to create the morphed nude photograph of the actor and to carry out further investigation.

However, the accused's lawyers, Aman Shahi, Prashant Trivedi and Aditya Jain, strongly opposed the police's custody request, arguing that the arrest had been carried out in violation of mandatory legal safeguards.

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