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

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.