New Delhi, April 27 -- A court in Sindhudurg on Monday convicted and sentenced Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane to one month's imprisonment in a case of the pouring of mud on an NHAI engineer when he was in opposition.

According to PTI, the court noted 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 in the case.

"Even though Rane's intention was to raise a voice against the poor quality of work and inconvenience faced by the people, he was not supposed to humiliate or insult a public servant in public," additional sessions court judge V S Deshmukh stated, as per PTI.

"If such incidents cont...