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Kamal R Khan was arrested from the Mumbai International Airport on August 30 for alleged derogatory tweets and sent to judicial custody.
Kamal R Khan was granted bail on Tuesday in the 2021 molestation case, but will remain in jail as his bail plea in the 2020 case of the controversial tweet is pending.
A Mumbai court on Tuesday granted bail to actor Kamal R Khan, popularly known as KRK, in the 2021 molestation case registered against him by the suburban Versova police. Khan, however, will remain in jail as his bail plea is pending before the Borivali magistrate court in connection with the controversial tweet about the 2020 actor. Akshay Kumar and filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma. His bail application in the tweet case is likely to be heard in the Borivali Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Wednesday.
Khan was arrested from the Mumbai International Airport on August 30 for alleged derogatory tweets and sent to judicial custody by the Borivali magistrate court. In the case of molestation, Versova police took him into custody on Sunday and he was produced in Bandra court.
Khan, in his bail plea filed before the Bandra magistrate court through advocates Ashok Sarogi and Jai Yadav, claimed that the contents of the First Information Report (FIR) practically did not match with the alleged molestation incident. Advocate Yadav submitted before the court that the FIR was registered 18 months after the incident and that too after being asked to do so by the friend of the victim.
He further argued that the Indian Penal Code section against Khan was bailable. The court allowed Khan’s plea. The detailed order was not yet available.
A case of molestation was registered in June 2021 on the basis of a complaint by a 27-year-old woman under sections 354 (a) (sexual harassment in the nature of unwelcome physical contact) and 509 (word or gesture intended to insult one’s modesty) . Female) of IPC. The complainant had alleged that Khan had invited her to his bungalow in Versova on the pretext of offering her a lead role in a film. According to the FIR, he made her drink alcohol and touched her inappropriately.
According to the police, the tweets posted by Khan in 2020 were communal and targeted Bollywood personality. He was booked in 2020 under sections 153 (incitement to cause riot) and 500 (punishment for defamation) and other provisions of the IPC and information. technology act.
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