Attack on Shourie — RPI workers get bail

August 6: A metropolitan magistrate today granted bail to the 30 Republican Party of India (RPI) activists (Jogendra Kawade group) who had...

August 6: A metropolitan magistrate today granted bail to the 30 Republican Party of India (RPI) activists (Jogendra Kawade group) who had been arrested on Saturday for manhandling Union Minister of State Arun Shourie. The activists were released after they furnished a bail amount of Rs 2,000.

Defence advocates I P Kalpatre, Inderpal Singh, and Sanghraj Rupawate told the court that their clients had been falsely implicated and added they were merely staging a peaceful agitation outside the Y B Chavan Centre.

Among those who had been arrested were vice-president of the RPI Tansen Nannaware, secretary of RPI’s Mumbai unit Milind Surve, RPI’s city youth president Sopan Pawar and one Mohammad Jamil Merchant.

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RPI president and Rajya Sabha MP R S Gawai told Newsline he had “no knowledge about the incident or the people involved.”

Shourie was in Mumbai on Saturday to deliver the Lalit Joshi memorial lecture. When the Minister rose to speak, amidst sloganeering, a young man from the audience got up and tore off Shourie’s shirt. This is the third attack on Shourie by RPI for his remarks on Dr Ambedkar in his book Worshipping False Gods.

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