{"id":104948,"date":"2025-03-22T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T13:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=104948"},"modified":"2025-03-22T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T13:21:12","slug":"action-will-be-taken-d-fadnavis-on-journalists-shivaji-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=104948","title":{"rendered":"“Action Will Be Taken”: D Fadnavis On Journalist’s Shivaji Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday refuted allegations that police is shielding Nagpur-based journalist Prashant Koratkar, who is accused of making offensive remarks against Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his son Chhatrapati Sambhaji during a phone call with a historian.<\/p>\n

Asked about reports of Mr Koratkar being in Dubai, Mr Fadnavis told reporters that news on the issue was being put out without verification.<\/p>\n

“Police are looking for him and action will be taken against him wherever he is, whether it is Dubai or anywhere else,” the CM asserted.<\/p>\n

Speculation of Mr Koratkar having fled to the Middle East to escape arrest was doing the rounds after some photographs of him abroad surfaced online.<\/p>\n

Mr Koratkar was booked on February 26 for allegedly threatening Kolhapur-based historian Indrajeet Sawant and making derogatory comments against Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his warrior-son Sambhaji Maharaj.<\/p>\n

The Kolhapur police had registered a case against the Nagpur resident under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for promoting hatred or enmity between groups and other offences.<\/p>\n

On March 18, the court of Additional sessions judge D V Kashyap in Kolhapur had rejected his anticipatory bail plea.<\/p>\n

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n

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