![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Last week, the high court had pulled up the Maharashtra government over the student’s arrest, asking if it will take cognisance of each and every tweet that it sees as offensive.Īlso Read: Ketaki Chitale - why Marathi actor booked for ‘trolling’ Sharad Pawar often ends up in newsĬhitale, 34, was arrested on the basis of an FIR filed by Swapnil Netke, a local NCP functionary, in Thane district’s Kalwa police station. Legal experts ThePrint spoke to said while there needs to be action against hate speech, Chitale’s month-long incarceration is “unjust”.Ĭhitale’s legal team now has its eyes set on when the Bombay High Court will hear her petition, especially after the court’s remarks on a similar case against Nikhil Bhamre, a 21-year-old student who was arrested last month over an allegedly offensive tweet about Pawar. She is still fighting for bail in the Sharad Pawar case.įearing that more police stations will seek her custody in the multiple FIRs filed against her, the actor has approached the Bombay High Court, asking for her arrest and detention to be declared as “illegal”. Subsequently, the Navi Mumbai police revived a 2020 case filed against the Marathi actor under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, for another social media post, formally arresting her in the case and filing a chargesheet as well.Ī Thane district court last Thursday granted bail to Chitale in the 2020 case, but the actor cannot walk out of jail yet.
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