BJP MLA Ganesh Naik granted anticipatory bail in rape case

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Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Get together MLA Ganesh Naik was on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail by the Bombay Excessive Court docket in a case the place a girl accused him of rape and legal intimidation.

Whereas listening to the matter, Justice Anuja Prabhudessai noticed that prima facie, the connection between Naik and the complainant gave the impression to be consensual, based on Bar and Bench.

“Prima facie important substances of rape are usually not made out. It’s said that no case is made out for custodial interrogation. Utility for bail can’t be rejected solely on the bottom that the applicant is MLA,” the Court docket said.

Naik was given the anticipatory bail plea, topic to the situations that within the occasion of arrest, Naik is entitled to be launched on bail on cost of ₹25,000.
He’ll seem earlier than the involved police station on Monday and Tuesday for interrogation. Additionally, he shall give up his revolver inside per week from right this moment.

Earlier, FIR was registered on a grievance by a 42-year-old girl who claimed to have been in a live-in relationship with Naik since 1995. They allegedly met in a membership in 1993, the place she was a receptionist, and later fell in love. A consensual sexual relationship adopted, they usually had a toddler as nicely, said the Bar and Bench report.

The girl, in her grievance, additional alleged that Naik was not treating her nicely and averted her calls. She claimed that someday, Naik known as her to his workplace for lunch. When she tried to investigate if he would give his title to the kid, Naik purportedly pulled out his revolver and informed her to cease harassing him else he would kill her, their son after which finish his personal life, the report said.

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