Thane court rejects Marathi actress Ketaki Chitale's bail
The Magistrate"s court said that the crime was of serious nature and thus the bail has been denied.
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Mumbai, May 27: A Magistrate court in Thane rejected the bail plea of Marathi actor Ketaki Chitale who was arrested on May 14 for allegedly uploading a social media post against NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
The Magistrate's court said that the crime was of serious nature and thus the bail has been denied. The magistrate court has also extended Chitale's judicial custody in the case for another 14 days.
Chitale, 29, was arrested on Saturday over a post she allegedly shared on her Facebook page. The post shared by Chitale, was written in verse, purportedly by someone else. It contained objectionable phrases like "hell is waiting" and "you hate Brahmins", in an alleged reference to Pawar.
In the meantime, in the other case registered against Chitale under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the prosecution took some more time to file a reply to Chitale's bail application and is likely to reply on Friday.
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Chitale had uploaded a poem about a "Pawar" that led to several FIRs against her. This case registered against her is under Sections 500 (defamation), 501 (printing or engraving defamatory matter) and 153A (promoting enmity between two groups on the basis of religion, caste, etc) of the Indian Penal Code at Kalwa police station.