New Delhi: National Congress Party (NCP) MLA and former housing minister Jitendra Awhad has been granted bail on Tuesday by a court in Thane on a personal bond of Rs 15,000 in the molestation case registered against him at Mumbra police station. He had moved an anticipatory bail plea in the court to avoid arrest yesterday.
The NCP leader was booked by police after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker accused Awhad of outraging her modesty.
The court had earlier directed the Thane police to not arrest Awhad till the verdict of his pre-arrest bail application comes out. He was being represented by advocates Gajanan Chavan and Prashant Kadam at the court.
The case was registered by the Mumbra police after midnight on Monday under Indian Penal Code section 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) on the complaint of the BJP worker.
The complainant alleged that Awhad pushed her while making way for himself during the dispersal of the crowd after an event of chief minister Eknath Shinde in Mumbra on the evening of November 13, as per the First Information Report (FIR).
Three days back, Awhad was released on bail in a case of disrupting the show of the Marathi movie "Har Har Mahadev" at a multiplex in Thane city.