{"id":10924,"date":"2020-11-17T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=10924"},"modified":"2020-11-17T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T07:01:13","slug":"tweets-against-thackerays-court-grants-bail-to-jailed-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/tweets-against-thackerays-court-grants-bail-to-jailed-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweets against Thackerays: Court grants bail to jailed man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:-https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MUMBAI: A magistrate&#8217;s court here on Monday granted bail to Nagpur resident Sameet Thakkar in one of the three cases registered against him for allegedly tweeting &#8220;objectionable&#8221; content against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his minister son Aaditya Thackeray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thakkar was granted a cash bail of Rs 25,000 by the magistrate&#8217;s court in Bandra, said his lawyer Abad Ponda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thakkar had secured bail in a case registered against him at the BKC Cyber Cell police station in Mumbai following his tweet against the Thackerays earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two more FIRs were registered against him for the same tweets, one in Nagpur, and another in the VP Road police station, also in Mumbai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ponda said Thakkar will be released from jail following the bail order since he had already secured a similar relief in the other two cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thakkar was arrested by the Mumbai Police in October this year after he failed to appear before the VP Road and BKC police stations to record his statement, despite a Bombay High Court order directing him to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court declined to entertain a petition filed by Thakkar under Article 32 of the Constitution alleging violation of his fundamental rights and seeking his release from the jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian asked the counsel for Thakkar to approach the Bombay High Court with the plea saying that it can also uphold his fundamental rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thakkar&#8217;s counsel in the apex court, Mahesh Jethmalani, had prayed that all the three criminal cases registered against his client be consolidated into one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Nagpur, the FIR was registered against Thakkar following a complaint lodged byShiv Sena worker Nitin Tiwari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two FIRs in Mumbai were registered on the complaints of lawyer and Shiv Sena functionary Dharmendra Mishra.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><div class=\"fb-comments\" style=\"width:100%\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/tweets-against-thackerays-court-grants-bail-to-jailed-man\/\" data-numposts=\"5\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-order-by=\"social\" data-mobile=\"true\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:-https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com MUMBAI: A magistrate&#8217;s court here on Monday granted bail to Nagpur resident Sameet Thakkar in one of the three cases registered against him for allegedly tweeting &#8220;objectionable&#8221; content against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his minister son Aaditya Thackeray. 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