NAVI MUMBAI: The Panvel city police on Wednesday arrested Kiran Inamdar who was booked for forwarding the defamatory post of actress Ketaki Chitale against NCP chief Sharad Pawar, on his Facebook wall.
The police nabbed him from Palspe area in Panvel in Maharashtra's Raigad district.
After the women activists of the NCP learnt that the Panvel resident was arrested, they immediately reached the police station to drape him in a saree and put bangles on him to teach him a lesson. However, the cops prevented the agitating women from entering the police station and the 34-year-old was escorted with his face covered in a black cloth.
Vijay Kadbane, senior inspector said, "Acting on a complaint by NCP activist Shridhar Bagal on May 15, we had registered an FIR against Inamdar, who was booked under relevant IPC sections, for defamation promoting enmity, spreading disharmony among people and hurting the sentiments of the NCP activists, who revere Pawar as their mentor. The accused was absconding. As of now, it is not confirmed whether the accused is affiliated to any political party as he owns a food stall in Panvel."
Kadbane said, “On Wednesday night, the NCP women activists gathered outside the police station and demanded that Inamdar should be handed over to them, as they wanted to teach him a lesson by draping him in a saree and put bangles on him for humiliating Pawar. As their demand was illegal, we pacified the crowd of agitators and assured them that we were taking appropriate legal actions by following the due procedure of law. The accused was escorted to Panvel court on Thursday morning for seeking his police custody.”
