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Bailable warrant against Thackeray

FEBRUARY 9: Additional Metropolitan Magistrate V N Dixit today issued a bailable warrant against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, who is als...

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FEBRUARY 9: Additional Metropolitan Magistrate V N Dixit today issued a bailable warrant against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, who is also editor of his party8217;s Hindi mouthpiece Dopahar Ka Saamna.

The warrant was issued in a defamation case filed by Minister of State for Home Kripashankar Singh. Singh has lodged a complaint against Dopahar Ka Saamna under Sections 500 and 501 of the Indian Penal Code for carrying a defamatory article against him three years ago.

The article on Singh, carried in the newspaper in 1997, was titled Jaunpur Ka Thakur.

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