India, April 28 -- A court in Sindhudurg on Monday convicted Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane in a 2019 case of pouring mud on an NHAI engineer, and sentenced him to one-month imprisonment, noting that lawmakers are not supposed to take the law into their hands. Later, the court suspended Rane's sentence, allowing him time to appeal before a higher court, while acquitting 29 other accused. Rane, then a Congress MLA, had called NHAI sub-divisional engineer Prakash Shedekar, to a bridge in Kankavli in July 2019, for inspecting the work to widen the Mumbai-Goa Highway. According to the prosecution, Rane and his followers, frustrated by the poor quality of the roadwork, confronted the engineer. They poured muddy water on Shedekar and forced him...