By way of PTI
THANE: A court docket right here on Thursday granted bail to Marathi actor Ketaki Chitale in a case registered in opposition to her below the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in neighbouring Navi Mumbai in 2020.
Chitale, alternatively, may not be launched from prison straight away as she is recently in judicial custody in every other case the place she is accused of sharing an objectionable put up about NCP leader Sharad Pawar on social media.
Suggest Yogesh Deshpande, her attorney, instructed PTI that Further Periods Pass judgement on A S Bhagwat granted her bail within the Atrocities Act case on a surety of Rs 25,000.
Rabale police in Navi Mumbai had registered a case in opposition to Chitale, a TV and picture actor, on March 3, 2020, in response to a criticism via Swapnil Jagtap, a member of the Ambedkar Yuva sangh. The criticism associated with a Fb put up.
On Might 14, 2022, Thane police arrested Chitale for sharing a Marathi verse, which allegedly referred to NCP leader Sharad Pawar in a derogatory means, on Fb. On Thursday, she challenged her arrest on this case earlier than the Bombay Top Court docket.
Her plea, filed thru suggest Deshpande, said that the Thane police must have given her a realize below segment 41A of the Legal Process Code (CrPC) and allowed her to look earlier than a police officer.
Segment 41A of the CrPC mandates that during instances the place arrest isn’t straight away essential, the police shall first factor a realize to the individual to enroll in probe. Chitale alleged that as a substitute of sending her a realize, the Thane police telephoned her and requested her to report back to the police station the place she was once arrested.
The movie and TV actor additional claimed that she had simply shared a poem penned via any individual else, and it didn’t title the NCP leader. The 29-year-old actor is recently going through over 20 FIRs in regards to the Fb put up allegedly relating to Pawar.
