High Courts Quash FIRs Over Alleged Offensive Social Media Posts in Jharkhand and Gurugram

The Jharkhand High Court quashed an FIR against a woman accused of insulting Lord Jesus on social media, noting no deliberate intent to outrage religious feelings beyond the informant. Similarly, the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed an FIR in Gurugram for obscenity, ruling that humiliating words alone do not meet the legal threshold for obscenity under Section 294 of the IPC, which requires words capable of arousing sexually impure thoughts. Both courts emphasized limits on penalizing offensive speech without clear legal grounds.