Marathi actor Ketaki Chitale will get bail in Atrocities Act case 

By PTI

THANE: A court docket right here on Thursday granted bail to Marathi actor Ketaki Chitale in a case registered towards her beneath the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in neighbouring Navi Mumbai in 2020.

Chitale, nonetheless, will not be launched from jail instantly as she is at the moment in judicial custody in one other case the place she is accused of sharing an objectionable put up about NCP chief Sharad Pawar on social media.

Advocate Yogesh Deshpande, her lawyer, advised PTI that Additional Sessions Judge 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 towards Chitale, a TV and movie actor, on March 3, 2020, based mostly on a criticism by Swapnil Jagtap, a member of the Ambedkar Yuva sangh. The criticism associated to a Facebook put up.

On May 14, 2022, Thane police arrested Chitale for sharing a Marathi verse, which allegedly referred to NCP chief Sharad Pawar in a derogatory manner, on Facebook. On Thursday, she challenged her arrest on this case earlier than the Bombay High Court.

Her plea, filed by way of advocate Deshpande, acknowledged that the Thane police ought to have given her a discover beneath part 41A of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and allowed her to look earlier than a police officer.

Section 41A of the CrPC mandates that in circumstances the place arrest just isn’t instantly vital, the police shall first situation a discover to the individual to hitch probe. Chitale alleged that as a substitute of sending her a discover, the Thane police telephoned her and requested her to report back to the police station the place she was arrested.

The movie and TV actor additional claimed that she had merely shared a poem penned by another person, and it didn’t identify the NCP chief. The 29-year-old actor is at the moment dealing with over 20 FIRs relating to the Facebook put up allegedly referring to Pawar.