Thane: A court docket right here in Maharashtra on Sunday remanded Marathi actor Ketaki Chitale in police custody until May 18 following her arrest over allegedly sharing an objectionable post on social media about NCP chief Sharad Pawar, an official mentioned. Chitale (29), a movie and TV actress, was arrested by the Thane police on Saturday over a post she allegedly shared on her Facebook web page.
She was on Sunday produced earlier than a vacation court docket which remanded her in police custody until May 18, a senior police official mentioned.
Chitale and 23-year-old pharmacy scholar Nikhil Bhamre have been arrested on Saturday for allegedly sharing objectionable social media posts about Pawar.
While Chitale was arrested by the Thane police, Bhamre was arrested in Nashik for allegedly making an objectionable touch upon Twitter against Pawar, whose occasion shares energy with the Shiv Sena and Congress in Maharashtra.
The post shared by Chitale, which was in verse type, was purportedly written by another person. It contained phrases like “hell is waiting” and “you hate Brahmins”, allegedly referring to the NCP president.
Chitale was booked beneath Indian Penal Code Sections 500 (defamation), 501 (printing or engraving matter identified to be defamatory), 505 (2) (making, publishing or circulating any assertion, hearsay or report selling enmity, hatred or in poor health will between lessons) and 153 A (spreading disharmony amongst folks).
