India, Aug. 20 -- The BMC Standing Committee meeting scheduled for Wednesday was postponed due to BJP corporators, including the chairperson of the Standing Committee Prabhakar Shinde, fearing they would be arrested. The court had issued non-bailable warrants for the corporators in a previous hearing concerning a 2020 protest case.

The meeting was postponed against the backdrop of BJP corporator Akash Rajpurohit, who was taken into custody for reaching the court late for the previous hearing on August 5. Rajpurohit was subsequently remanded to court custody for two days.

Speaking to HT, Shinde said he had reached the court on Wednesday morning for the hearing, but it was scheduled for the afternoon. "When we exited the court, we were ca...