Kunal Kamra granted interim bail by Madras High Court in Eknath Shinde joke case

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The Madras High Court has granted interim bail to comedian Kunal Kamra till April 7 in connection with a case over controversial remarks about Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde.

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00:00Comedian Kunal Kamra has been granted interim bail by the Madras High Court till the 7th

00:13of April in a case registered against him in Mumbai.

00:17This is the second summon of the Khar police that was sent to Kunal Kamra for appearance

00:23on the 31st of March.

00:26The bench of Justice Sundar Mohan granted interim relief after Kunal Kamra's lawyer

00:34pleaded that the High Court had jurisdiction to intervene in this manner and grant bail

00:40and that Kamra would not be able to be there.

00:44Kunal Kamra had been asked to execute the bail bond before the jurisdictional magistrate.

00:51Though the FIR is lodged in Mumbai's Khar police station, Kamra being a resident of

00:56Tamil Nadu had approached the High Court there.

00:59Now, his counsel V. Suresh, he sought urgent relief citing multiple death threats that

01:06Kunal Kamra had received after airing of his new clip of the stand-up video of Naya Bharat.

01:13Justice Sundar Mohan said he is prima facie satisfied that Kunal Kamra is unable to approach

01:20the courts in Maharashtra for protection.

01:22The court was thus inclined to grant anticipatory bail.

01:27I quickly want to cut across to India Today's Divyesh Singh who joins us with the latest

01:33on the story.

01:34So Divyesh, while Mumbai police had insisted that Kunal Kamra should join investigations

01:39by the 31st of March, which is where the second summons were sent to him, but this is relief

01:45for the comedian.

01:47Well yes, Gaurav, Kunal Kamra's lawyer had approached the Madras High Court and stated

01:53or cited that he would be receiving death threats, he would be receiving multiple threats,

01:59multiple death threats and he would not be able to appear before the Khar police and

02:05sought anticipatory bail in the summons issued to him in the FIR registered against him at

02:10the Khar police station.

02:12Now after hearing the appeal, after hearing the application of Kunal Kamra for anticipatory

02:17bail, the bench of Justice Sundar Mohan has granted interim relief to Kunal Kamra till

02:26April 7th.

02:27Till April 7th, he has interim relief.

02:30Meanwhile, the Khar police had issued a second summons which asked him to appear by March

02:3731st in front of the Khar police station officials regarding the satirical video that

02:43they made where he had used some words which were objected for by the A-class Sindhi named

02:50Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena also filed the FIR against him.

02:54The FIR states that he spread false information, he spread rumours and he defamed Shiv Sena

03:02and Shiv Sena.

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