India, July 3 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday quashed the externment of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) state general secretary Saeed Ahmad Abdul Wahid Chaudhary, questioning how sloganeering against the government could justify such action.

During the hearing, Justice Madhav Jamdar sharply questioned the Mumbai police's decision to extern Chaudhary, a former Lok Sabha candidate, from Mumbai and adjoining areas for one year. The judge specifically asked why slogans such as "BJP government murdabad" and "Amit Shah murdabad" had been treated as grounds for externment, Bar and Bench reported.

"How can such slogans become a ground for externment," Justice Jamdar asked the government.

The court was examining an order that barre...