Kunal Kamra row: Bombay excessive court docket reserves order, stays arrest

The excessive court docket has additionally instructed the police to not arrest the comic arrested until then.

“Arguments concluded. Within the meantime, as agreed by PP that summons are underneath 35(3), which particularly refers that the arrest of individual shouldn’t be required, in that background arrest of this individual doesn’t come up. Matter reserved for orders until then petitioner shall not be arrested,” the bench of justice Sarang Kotwal and justice Shriram Modak stated whereas reserving the order, LiveLaw reported.

The Madras Excessive Courtroom had on April 7 prolonged Kamra’s interim safety until April 17. He had moved to the court docket searching for transit anticipatory bail in reference to the FIR lodged towards him in Mumbai for his ‘traitor’ jibe at Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde throughout a present.

The Kunal Kamra and Eknath Shinde row

In March, an FIR was filed in Mumbai after comic Kunal Kamra took a traitor jibe at Eknath Shinde in a present recorded at ‘The Habitat’ within the metropolis’s Khar space. The jibe was about Shinde’s riot towards Uddhav Thackeray in 2022, through which he break up the Shiv Sena and joined arms with the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP), ensuing within the fall of the MVA authorities.

When the recording of the present was uploaded on YouTube, Shiv Sena staff vandalised the venue. Mumbai police summoned Kamra within the case on three separate events, however the comic skipped them, as a substitute transferring to the Madras excessive court docket for defense from arrest.

He additionally moved a petition within the Bombay excessive court docket to quash the FIR altogether, on which the order was reserved on Wednesday. Whereas the ruling Mahayuti alliance has been vital of Kamra’s joke whereas the opposition has backed the comic, citing freedom of speech.