Thread by @ARanganathan72

The manner, I am hearing, in which @Iyervval's bail plea was dismissed by the CJI-led bench was downright flippant and a disgrace to the highest court.

"If your life is in danger, then what better & safer place than the prison."

Abhijit, you are strong. We are with YOU.

https://twitter.com/timesofindia/status/1047771065341173760

This man is an IAS officer and Director of Tourism, Government of Odisha.

Does the hon'ble Chief Justice of India still feel @Iyervval would be safe in Odisha?

Or does he believe that the punishment for sarcasm in this country is being fed to crocodiles?

https://twitter.com/nitinjawaleias/status/1042815292311625729

In the wake of @Iyervval's written apology to the Odisha Assembly, many are mocking and ridiculing him, and also those who stood by him.

Well, I STILL stand by Abhijit. Will always do. This is why:

And as for you @dpradhanbjp, for demanding Abhijit's arrest, for playing your games, for deliberately ignoring what he said was in sarcasm, I want you to know that your time will come. One day, the power of the State, a different State, will hound you. You will be alone. One day.

Day 1 is over for @Iyervval. He has refused food. 13 more days for him at Odisha's Jharpada Jail, notorious for overcrowding, custody deaths, undertrial suicides, and narcotic seizures.

All this for his comments on the origins of Roshogolla.

India, 2018.

Remember the fleeting detention of Sofia for shouting inside a plane, that led to a day-long outrage & TV shows?

Forget shows. Tweets on @Iyervval's arrest on Oct 23 by police under @Naveen_Odisha:

@republic: 0
@timesnow: 0
@cnnnews18: 0
@mirrornow: 0
@indiatoday: 1
@ndtv: 1

The unrelenting, unrepentant display of State power. @Iyervval has now been shifted to another prison within Odisha, and this time round thrown into a common cell, with other prisoners. Meanwhile, his lawyer cannot approach the High Court because it is closed.

Macabre.

Abhijit has now been in jail for 8 straight days, for cracking a joke. One of the charges under which he has been arrested is the dreaded 295A.

The Odisha courts are on strike and the Supreme Court goes on a long vacation tomorrow.

There is no silver lining to this cloud. None.

If right now I am not in jail, it is because the State has decided I need not be jailed.

#FreeAbhijit

Day ten behind bars. One aspect in this grisly episode is most revealing.

Any politician worth his salt would have on day one complained of breathlessness and palpitation, and gotten himself transferred to a hospital. But not @Iyervval.

Abhijit, I respect you even more now.

Tomorrow, the day of Deepawali, festival of lights, @Iyervval completes fifteen days in a dark cell.

So much has happened on matters relating to Defence and Foreign Policy, that Abhijit would have churned out a clutch of articles in these past two weeks.

I hope he is writing.

A day without sun; a night without end.

Man can survive yet.

But a land without justice?

Be brave, Abhijit. We are all with you.

https://twitter.com/Kalingatv24x7/status/1059792170662555652

I light a diya for Abhijit and for all those Indians who are being persecuted not for their actions but for their words. They are in my thoughts. Happy Deepavali to them.

Abhijit's bail plea has once again been rejected. For the third time. As he nears completing three weeks inside prison. For cracking a joke.

But they can never break him. He will emerge stronger.

While this is good news, it is unconnected to the three FIRs for which Abhijit is currently in jail. But I hope this has a bearing on those cases and a bail is granted ASAP. #FreeAbhijit

https://twitter.com/otvnews/status/1063774821954318336?s=19