Via PTI
MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Birthday party (NCP) chief and previous Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad was once arrested on Friday in reference to the disruption of a display of the Marathi movie Har Har Mahadev previous this week.
9 of his supporters had been additionally arrested, mentioned a police reliable.
They had been more likely to be produced sooner than a Justice of the Peace on Saturday, he added.
Awhad, the MLA from Mumbra-Kalwa constituency in Thane town, tweeted that he was once summoned to the Vartak Nagar police station within the afternoon and put underneath arrest.
On November 7, Awhad and his supporters stormed right into a multiplex within the town and stopped a display of Har Har Mahadev, alleging that the movie distorted the historical past of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Some cine-goers had been additionally overwhelmed up after they protested in opposition to the forcible preventing of the display, video photos of the incident confirmed.
A First Data File (FIR) was once registered at Vartak Nagar police station underneath Indian Penal Code sections 323 (attack) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of peace).
Awhad was once housing minister within the earlier Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress executive within the state.
As the scoop of his arrest unfold, NCP employees collected out of doors the police station in massive numbers and shouted slogans in opposition to the federal government.
Stress prevailed in some portions of town following Awhad’s arrest, police mentioned.
MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Birthday party (NCP) chief and previous Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad was once arrested on Friday in reference to the disruption of a display of the Marathi movie Har Har Mahadev previous this week.
9 of his supporters had been additionally arrested, mentioned a police reliable.
They had been more likely to be produced sooner than a Justice of the Peace on Saturday, he added.
Awhad, the MLA from Mumbra-Kalwa constituency in Thane town, tweeted that he was once summoned to the Vartak Nagar police station within the afternoon and put underneath arrest.
On November 7, Awhad and his supporters stormed right into a multiplex within the town and stopped a display of Har Har Mahadev, alleging that the movie distorted the historical past of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Some cine-goers had been additionally overwhelmed up after they protested in opposition to the forcible preventing of the display, video photos of the incident confirmed.
A First Data File (FIR) was once registered at Vartak Nagar police station underneath Indian Penal Code sections 323 (attack) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of peace).
Awhad was once housing minister within the earlier Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress executive within the state.
As the scoop of his arrest unfold, NCP employees collected out of doors the police station in massive numbers and shouted slogans in opposition to the federal government.
Stress prevailed in some portions of town following Awhad’s arrest, police mentioned.