A single-judge bench was hearing the student’s criminal application, seeking quashing of the FIR over her Operation Sindoor post (File photo)

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday, October 27, quashed an FIR registered against a 20-year-old Pune engineering student over her last year’s social media post on Operation Sindoor, observing that a “youthful error of judgment cannot automatically be equated with a deliberate criminal act.”

Justice Milind N Jadhav also observed that the prosecution lacked a “sufficient factual foundation” to prove its case.

A single-judge bench was hearing the student’s criminal application, seeking quashing of the FIR, contending that she had merely reposted an Instagram post and deleted it within two hours.

Following the controversy, the Sinhgad Academy of Engineering in Pune rusticated the engineering student.

In the FIR, the Pune Police had said that the student had “shared a post on her Instagram account on May 7 regarding the war between Bharat and Pakistan, which had…