Who is Ketaki Chitale? The Marathi actor arrested for posting derogatory remarks in opposition to Sharad Pawar

She was booked underneath IPC sections 500 (defamation), 501 (printing or engraving defamatory matter) and 153A (selling enmity between completely different teams on grounds of faith, race, native land, residence, language, and so on, and doing acts prejudicial to upkeep of concord) of the Indian Penal Code.

Ketaki is a tv actor identified for working in TV exhibits like Star Pravah’s Ambat Goad, Zee5’s Tuza Maza Breakup, and Sony TV’s Saas Bina Sasural.

Her social media handles counsel she can also be an activist preventing for epilepsy consciousness.  She can also be the founding father of an organisation known as Accept Epilepsy. Even her Instagram deal with reads @epilepsy_warrior_queen. Her social media says that she is neurodivergent and makes use of she/they pronouns.

There have been rumours that she was going to be part of Mahesh Manjrekar-hosted actuality TV collection Bigg Boss Marathi 3, however she quashed these rumours whereas talking to the Times of India and didn’t seem within the present which aired final yr.

Ketaki is the second particular person to run afoul of the legislation within the final 24 hours for making provocative statements in opposition to Pawar. In her put up on Friday, Chitale had made disparaging remarks on Pawar’s sickness, look, voice and likewise known as him corrupt.