KRK gets bail in molestation case; to remain in jail over tweets

A Mumbai court, on Tuesday, granted bail to Kamaal R Khan (KRK) with regards to a 2021 molestation case registered on him by suburban Versova police.

However, KRK will be in jail, since his bail plea regarding his 2020 case of controversial tweets about actor Akshay Kumar and filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma, is pending before the Borivali magistrate court. The hearing for this case is expected to be heard on Wednesday.

KRK was arrested from the Mumbai International airport on August 30 over the alleged derogatory tweets and sent to judicial custody by the Borivali magistrate court. He was also taken into custody by the Versova police on Sunday for the molestation case and he was produced before the Bandra court.

KRK, in his bail plea filed through lawyers Ashok Sarogi and Jay Yadav before the Bandra magistrate court, claimed the contents of the First Information Report (FIR) did not match the alleged molestation incident practically. Yadav has conveyed to the court that the FIR was registered 18 months after the incident and after the victim's friend asked her to do so.

In the molestation case, KRK is booked under Sections 354(A) (sexual harassment of the nature of unwelcome physical contact) and 509 (word or gesture intending to insult the modesty of any woman) of the IPC. The complainant alleged that KRK called het to his Versova bungalow on the pretence of offering a role in a film and spiked her drink, touched her inappropriately.

With regards to controversial tweet case, he is booked under Sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) and 500 (punishment for defamation) and other provisions of the IPC and the Information Technology Act.