BJP MLC CT Ravi booked for making obscene remarks on Min. Lakshmi Hebbalkar
Belagavi: An FIR has been lodged against Bharatiya Janata Party MLC CT Ravi at the Hirebagewadi Police Station here on charges of using obscene and derogatory language against Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar in the Legislative Council on Thursday.
Ravi reportedly made the remarks during a protest by Congress members over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's alleged statement about Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Congress leaders filed a complaint with Speaker Basavaraj Horatti, demanding C.T. Ravi's suspension, criminal action, and arrest.
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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah condemned the incident, stating that the use of such obscene language amounts to a criminal offense and sexual assault.
Meanwhile, KPCC President and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, and several senior Congress leaders, including Law Minister H.K. Patil, Council Leader N. S. Boseraju, and others, met Speaker Basavaraj Horatti to press for action against C.T. Ravi. They were joined by Congress MLAs Nayana Motamma, Rupa Shashidhar, and Annapurna Tukaram, demanding strict action against the BJP leader for his remarks.
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Nashik court sends ‘godman’ Kharat to seven-day judicial custody in third rape case
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Nashik (PTI): A court in Maharashtra's Nashik on Monday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to judicial custody till April 20 in a third case of rape against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a pregnant woman.
The special investigation team (SIT) produced Kharat for a virtual hearing in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B N Ichpurani as his police custody in the case ended on Monday.
The SIT presented the remand report and sought judicial custody for Kharat, a former merchant navy officer. The court then remanded him to a seven-day judicial custody till April 20.
In the third case, Kharat, who was first arrested in mid-March, is accused of sexually exploiting a seven-month pregnant woman, the wife of his office staffer.
According to the complaint lodged by the victim's husband, the accused sexually assaulted the survivor on multiple occasions, including in his office in Nashik, between November 2023 and December 2025.
Kharat also conducted a ritual with the pregnant woman at a temple in Mirgaon village of Sinnar taluka of the district, it said.
Although the victim informed her husband about her plight, he did not believe her. But when he heard about complaints of Kharat's misbehaviour with other women, he planted a spy camera in the astrologer's office to find out the truth and recorded his acts.
The employee later handed over to the police a pen drive containing objectionable videos of the 'godman'.
Kharat faces nearly a dozen cases, eight of them related to sexual assaults.
The SIT, meanwhile, has filed an application in the court demanding Kharat's custody in another case. As the court granted them the necessary permission, the team will take the accused's custody from the Nashik Road Central Jail.
Kharat will be produced in court again in the fourth case on Tuesday.
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