Marathi television actress Ketaki Chitale, arrested last month for sharing an allegedly objectionable social media post about NCP chief Sharad Pawar, in a petition filed in the Bombay high court on June 6, said that she was being targeted by an unseen hand to deprive her of her fundamental right to personal liberty. She prayed for quashing of the FIR lodged against her by the Kalwa police on May 14 and as interim relief sought her release on bail and a stay on the probe.
Ketaki has been booked under various IPC sections for defamation and promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and race. She is currently in judicial custody.
Since multiple FIRs have been lodged in different police stations against Ketaki, on the same cause of action, the petition also sought directions to the DGP to advise all police stations to refrain from registering any further cases against her and to transfer any other FIR to the Kalwa police station.