By way of PTI
THANE: A court docket right here in Maharashtra on Wednesday remanded Marathi actor Ketaki Chitale in judicial custody in reference to the case of allegedly sharing an objectionable put up on social media about NCP leader Sharad Pawar.
Chitale (29), a movie and TV actress, used to be arrested through the Thane police final Saturday over the put up she allegedly shared on her Fb web page. A court docket had on Sunday despatched her in Thane police’s custody until Might 18.
On Wednesday, Thane crime department officers produced Chitale ahead of a Justice of the Peace who remanded her within the magisterial custody. A police legit stated that they had finished the probe into the case registered right here.
On Sunday, the Pune cyber police, who’ve additionally registered a case in opposition to Chitale, stated they are going to search the actor’s custody after the expiry of her remand with the Thane police.
Previous, circumstances had been additionally registered in opposition to the actor in Mumbai, Akola and Dhule districts in reference to the net put up.
The circumstances at those police stations had been registered beneath quite a lot of Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections, together with 500 (defamation), 501 (printing or engraving topic recognized to be defamatory), 505 (2) (making, publishing or circulating any observation, hearsay or document selling enmity, hatred or sick will between categories) and 153 A (spreading disharmony amongst other people), police stated.
The put up shared through Chitale, which used to be in verse shape, used to be purportedly written through any individual else. It contained words like “hell is ready” and “you hate Brahmins”, allegedly regarding Pawar, whose celebration stocks energy in Maharashtra with the Shiv Sena and Congress.