Ketaki Chitale files petition in Bombay High Court terming her arrest illegal

Mumbai, June 16: The Ketaki Chitale case has taken a new turn, where the Marathi actress has filed a new petition before the Bombay High Court. In the petition, the actress has termed her arrest as illegal.

Chitale, 29, was arrested on May 15 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.

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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.