As many as 109 employees of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC), who protested outside NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence in Mumbai, have been sent to judicial custody. 23 women are also included in these people. These people had thrown slippers towards Sharad Pawar’s house and behaved indecently with his daughter Supriya Pule. A case was registered against the accused at Gaondevi police station in Mumbai. After this incident, security has been increased at Pawar’s house.
Esplanade Metropolitan Magistrate Court has sent 109 MSRTC employees arrested for rioting outside Sharad Pawar’s residence to judicial custody on Saturday. The court has also sent Gunratan Sadavarte, the lawyer for the arrested MSRTC employees, to two-day police custody. Soon after being sent to judicial custody, 109 arrested employees of MSRTC applied for bail, but their bail plea was rejected by the magistrate court. Now they will move the sessions court for bail.
Mumbai’s Gaondevi police on Friday arrested 110 protesters, including 23 women and advocate Sadavarte, for rioting outside Sharad Pawar’s residence. 104 people were arrested from the Malabar Hill area soon after the incident, while six others were arrested on Friday night. The protesters gathered outside Silver Oak on Friday afternoon and raised slogans against Pawar, claiming that the NCP chief did nothing to fulfill their demands and also pelted stones, shoes and slippers at the house before police personnel intervened.