Mumbai court grants bail to man accused of issuing death threat to NCP chief Sharad Pawar
Mumbai, Jun 27: A court here on Tuesday granted bail to a Pune resident arrested for allegedly issuing a death threat to Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on social media.
Additional chief metropolitan magistrate (Esplanade court) L S Padhen allowed the bail plea of the accused Sagar Barve, who works in the data feeding and analytics section of a private firm.
The detailed order was not available yet.
According to the complainant, he came across a post on social media on June 9, which threatened the NCP patriarch with a fate similar to anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was shot dead in Pune on August 20, 2013, the prosecution said.
The post was on a page called "Rajkaran Maharashtra che" and the message was written by a profile name "Narmadabai Patwardhan". Assuming that the message was a death threat for Pawar, the complainant approached the police and an FIR was registered, it stated.
The crime branch, which was probing the case, later arrested the accused for his alleged involvement in issuing death threats, the prosecution said.
In the bail application filed through advocate Dhrutiman Joshi, Barve claimed that he had been wrongly framed in the case.
The allegations attributed are to one Narmadabai Patwardan and no link has been established by the prosecution to the accused, directly of being the holder of that account or writing such a comment, the plea said.
The prosecution has also not produced any evidence to show that the said account is operated by the accused, it added.
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Trump says he ‘hasn’t even thought about’ continuing Iran ceasefire
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he has not yet considered whether he would continue the ceasefire involving Iran, while also claiming the United States holds the advantage in negotiations.
Speaking to reporters, Trump said he was prepared to make a deal with “whoever is running the show” in Iran.
“They are fighting with each other, there’s tremendous infighting. They’re probably fighting for leadership in many cases. I think they’re fighting not to be leader because we knocked out two levels of leaders,” he said.
Trump added, “When they want they can call me. We have all the cards, we’ve won everything.”
Referring to ongoing negotiations, he said, “They gave us a paper that should’ve been better. And, interestingly, immediately when I cancelled it [envoy trip to Pakistan], within 10 minutes we got a new paper that was much better.”
“We talked about they will not have a nuclear weapon, very simple … They offered a lot, but not enough,” he added.
When asked whether he would continue the ceasefire, Trump replied, “I haven’t even thought about it.”
The remarks come as uncertainty remains over the future of the temporary truce and broader negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
