MLA Jitendra Awhad arrested

NCP MLA Dr. Jitendra Awhad was arrested for disrupting the screening of a movie based on Shivaji Maharaj.

Image Source: Jitendra Awhad (Facebook)

On 8 November, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against MLA Jitendra Awhad.

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FIR was enrolled against him and 100 party workers for effectively stopping the screening of the film.

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Jitendra Awhad and 100 party workers stopped the screening of the film at a mall in Thane and purportedly attacked the viewers.

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The film was the Marathi film ‘Har Har Mahadev’, a film based on the life of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

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As per them the film "misshaped the Maratha history and such films wouldn't be permitted to be released in the state".

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An FIR has been enrolled by Thane police in a complaint by the businessman who had gone to watch the film with his wife but was forcibly told to leave.

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Jitendra Awhad and party workers were booked under sections 146 (rioting), 321 (voluntarily causing hurt)

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323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 406 (punishment for breach of trust) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace).

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Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and president of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Raj Thackeray were present during the release of Har Har Mahadev.

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