Kolhapur, April 27 -- District and sessions court in Sindhudurg, judge V S Deshmukh, today awarded a month's imprisonment and fined Rs one lakh to Maharashtra and Sindhudurg district guardian minister Nitesh Rane in a case of throwing mud on engineer Prakash Shedekar on 4 April, 2019, in Kankavali.
While, the cout acquitted 29 other suspects.
Advocate Sangram Desai said the sentence has been stayed till an appeal against it is heard by the Bombay High Court.
Rane, who was the sitting MLA for the Kankavli Assembly constituency at the time, had summoned Shedekar to inspect the four-laning work on the Mumbai-Goa Highway. Upon reaching the Gadnadi bridge in Kankavli, Shedekar was questioned by Rane, Swabhiman Party mayor Sameer Nalawade and ...