Mangaluru: First Additional District and Sessions Judge Sharada B. on Friday granted anticipatory bail to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat in a case related to alleged provocative speech at a cow shelter in Konaje police station limits.

On a complaint filed by flying squad officials of the Election Commission of Mangaluru Assembly Constituency, the Konaje police registered a case against Mr. Bhat for allegedly making an inflammatory speech at Amurthadhara Go Shala in Kairangala on April 6.

He was booked under Section 153 (A) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 125 of the Representation of the People Act 1951.

Mr. Bhat filed a petition before the District and Sessions Court on April 13 under Section 439 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

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Sidhi (MP) (PTI): A BJP leader from Sidhi district in Madhya Pradesh was arrested on Tuesday on charges of raping a woman leader and extorting money, police said.

The BJP immediately expelled him from the party after he was arrested.

The FIR stated that the victim, also a BJP leader, was allegedly raped under the pretext of giving her a party ticket. The accused allegedly filmed the video of the incident and used it to extort money.

The accused, Ajitpal Singh Chouhan, also threatened to kill the woman's husband and forced her father-in-law to give money by showing him the obscene video, the FIR stated.

Chouhan was booked on January 13 under Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) sections 64 (1) (rape), 308 (5) (extortion by putting someone in fear of death or grievous hurt), 296 (obscene act) and 351 (3) (criminal intimidation).

Sidhi district BJP president Dev Kumar Singh expelled Ajitpal Singh Chouhan from the primary membership of the party.