NCP chief Jitendra Awhad arrested over disruption of screening of Marathi movie Ha’r Har Mahadev

By PTI

MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and former Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad was arrested on Friday in reference to the disruption of a present of the Marathi movie Har Har Mahadev earlier this week.

Nine of his supporters had been additionally arrested, stated a police official.

They had been more likely to be produced earlier than a Justice of the Peace on Saturday, he added.

Awhad, the MLA from Mumbra-Kalwa constituency in Thane metropolis, tweeted that he was summoned to the Vartak Nagar police station within the afternoon and put below arrest.

On November 7, Awhad and his supporters stormed right into a multiplex within the metropolis and stopped a present 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 towards the forcible stopping of the present, video footage of the incident confirmed.

A First Information Report (FIR) was registered at Vartak Nagar police station below Indian Penal Code sections 323 (assault) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of peace).

Awhad was housing minister within the earlier Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress authorities within the state.

As the information of his arrest unfold, NCP staff gathered outdoors the police station in massive numbers and shouted slogans towards the federal government.

Tension prevailed in some components of the town following Awhad’s arrest, police stated.

MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and former Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad was arrested on Friday in reference to the disruption of a present of the Marathi movie Har Har Mahadev earlier this week.

Nine of his supporters had been additionally arrested, stated a police official.

They had been more likely to be produced earlier than a Justice of the Peace on Saturday, he added.

Awhad, the MLA from Mumbra-Kalwa constituency in Thane metropolis, tweeted that he was summoned to the Vartak Nagar police station within the afternoon and put below arrest.

On November 7, Awhad and his supporters stormed right into a multiplex within the metropolis and stopped a present 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 towards the forcible stopping of the present, video footage of the incident confirmed.

A First Information Report (FIR) was registered at Vartak Nagar police station below Indian Penal Code sections 323 (assault) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of peace).

Awhad was housing minister within the earlier Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress authorities within the state.

As the information of his arrest unfold, NCP staff gathered outdoors the police station in massive numbers and shouted slogans towards the federal government.

Tension prevailed in some components of the town following Awhad’s arrest, police stated.