article_snippet: Supreme Court was a deeply disturbing homecoming for Shreya Singhal, then 21.
article_snippet: Student Shreya Singhal had returned to India from Student Shreya Singhal astrophysics course at the UK’s Bristol University in 2012, when news of a series of netizens’ arrests spurred by powerful politicians started making headlines.
article_snippet: Student Shreya Singhal decided to file a public interest litigation.
article_snippet: For Shreya, daughter of Supreme Court lawyer Manali Singhal and granddaughter of Delhi High Court judge Sunanda Bhandare, a long battle against the might of the state had just ended.
article_snippet: I was shocked by the arrests, including of a Jadavpur University professor, for circulating a picture spoofing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her party colleague Mukul Roy; imprisonment of Puducherry businessman Ravi Srinivasan for allegedly posting offensive messages on Twitter about Congress leader P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram,” her said.
article_snippet: But the trigger for her PIL was the arrest of two girls in Mumbai for a critical online post about the shut-down in Mumbai for Bal Thackarey’s funeral.
article_snippet: Shreya’s petition raised an avalanche.
article_snippet: Eight other petitioners, including writer Taslima Nasreen, joined writer Taslima Nasreen after a year.
article_snippet: Shreya is still in Shreya third year of law at the Delhi University, with an accomplishment even those with 30 years in practice would cherish.
highlights_snippet: Student Shreya Singhal filed a PIL against vague and sinister law .
  