Last Updated: September 08, 2022, 11:22 IST
Kamaal R Khan is likely to walkout of jail on Thursday after his bail was granted in the controversial tweets case.
Kamaal R Khan currently in judicial custody, was arrested by the police from the Mumbai airport last week in connection with his tweets.
A Mumbai court on Wednesday granted bail to actor Kamaal R Khan, popularly known as KRK, in the 2020 case of controversial tweets about actor Akshay Kumar and filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma. On Tuesday, another court here had granted bail to him in a molestation case of 2021.
Khan, currently in judicial custody, was arrested by the police from the Mumbai airport last week in connection with his tweets. He is likely to walk out of jail on Thursday morning. Police have claimed that Khan’s posts were communal and he targeted Bollywood personalities.
However, Khan in his bail plea moved through advocates Ashok Sarogi and Jay Yadav, said that the tweets in question were only his comments on the film titled “Laxmii Bomb” (released as only “Laxmii”) and no offence as alleged by the police was committed. Khan is acting as a “critic and/or reporter in the film Industry”, the bail plea said.
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The FIR against him was registered in 2020 under various Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections, including 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) and 500 (punishment for defamation), and provisions of the Information Technology Act.
The Deshdrohi actor was granted bail on Tuesday in a 2021 molestation case registered against him by the suburban Versova police. The molestation case was registered in June 2021 based on the complaint of a 27-year-old woman under sections 354(A) (sexual harassment of the nature of unwelcome physical contact) and 509 (word or gesture intending to insult the modesty of any woman) of the IPC. The complainant had alleged that Khan had called her to his bungalow in Versova on the pretext of offering her the lead role in a film. He spiked her drink and touched her inappropriately, as per the FIR.
