Mumbai: A Mumbai court Thursday granted bail to a television journalist arrested for “spreading misinformation” with his report that the government was thinking of starting Jan Sadharan train services for migrants, which allegedly led to a crowd gathering in Bandra.
Rahul Kulkarni, journalist with a Marathi news channel, was arrested by Mumbai Police Wednesday, a day after several migrant workers gathered near Bandra station here demanding that they be sent back to their home towns.
Kulkarni was produced before a magistrate in Bandra Thursday where the police sought his custody. The court, however, refused the police’s plea and remanded Kulkarni in judicial custody, following which his advocate Subodh Desai filed a bail application.
After hearing brief arguments, the court granted him bail on a surety of Rs 15,000.
PTI