Ketaki Chitale | Sharad Pawar
Marathi actor Ketaki Chitale, arrested for tweet on Sharad Pawar, remains in jail despite bail
A Marathi actor, who had been in jail for more than a month for allegedly sharing an objectionable post on NCP chief Sharad Pawar, got bail from a court in Thane but she will continue to remain in jail as she has several other cases against her.
All 20 of them are against the actor over her same Facebook post. She has been accused of defamation, printing or engraving defamatory matter and promoting enmity between two groups on the basis of religion, caste.
Ketaki Chitale was arrested on May 14,
She was denied bail earlier as the judges said her offense was of serious nature.
The actor had also filed a petition in the Bombay High Court challenging her arrest. The court will hear her plea next week.
Chitale has contended that the post in question, a poem, is written by another person and does not mention Pawar, whose NCP is a partner in Maharashtra's ruling coalition.
She had also filed a case challenging her arrest in the high court but it is still pending a hearing.
Besides Chitale, a 23-year-old pharmacy student, Nikhil Bhamre was also arrested last month for allegedly posting an objectionable comment on Sharad Pawar on Twitter.
He has been in jail for more than a month and six police cases against him.
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