Read lawyer Karuna Nanda's 2012 interview with Rediff.com in the aftermath of the arrests of a Palghar girl for posting an apparently offensive message on Facebook and another for 'liking' it, the nation erupted in protest.

"We've created a society where if you don't like what someone is saying -- and if you have police power at your disposal or battalions of thin-skinned people willing to riot on your behalf -- then you can harass someone with arrest at one end of the spectrum and three years in jail at the other."

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