Janjivan Bureau / MUMBAI: The alleged utterances made by Shiv Sena leader Waman Mhatre against a woman journalist were not to humiliate her on the basis of caste, the Bombay High Court said on Friday while granting him interim protection from arrest.
Mhatre was booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for allegedly making derogatory remarks against the woman journalist during the Badlapur school sexual assault protests.
Mhatre, part of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, filed an appeal in the High Court on Friday challenging a Kalyan sessions court order of August 29 refusing him pre-arrest bail.
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