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After Three Arrests For Tweets On Aditya And Uddhav Thackeray, Sameet Thakkar Finally Gets Bail
Swarajya Staff
Nov 16, 2020, 04:11 PM | Updated 04:11 PM IST
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Prominent Twitter user Sameet Thakkar was today granted bail by a Magistrate court in Mumbai after being arrested from Rajkot on 24 October over his comments against Uddhav and Aditya Thackeray.
Maharashtra: Sameet Thakkar granted bail by a court in Mumbai on a surety of Rs 25 thousand.
— ANI (@ANI) November 16, 2020
He was arrested on 24th October for allegedly making objectionable comments against Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray & State Minister Aaditya Thackeray on social media.
This came after the state government submitted before the Supreme Court that it will not oppose the Bail application as it has completed the investigation into the matter.
The arrests pertained to Thakkar's tweets which allegedly termed Uddhav Thackeray a - modern day Aurangzeb and his son and fellow minister Aditya Thackeray a baby penguin.
Following the arrest a disturbing video released by Thakkar's family purportedly showed him being led to a court while being tied to a rope with his face being covered with a black cloth.
On 3 November Thakkar was granted bail by a Nagpur court and was then arrested by Mumbai's V P Road Police till 9 November. The BKC Police then arrested him on 10 November and he has been in their custody since then.
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