India, July 25 -- A Pune sessions court on Thursday denied anticipatory bail to two individuals in connection with a social media post allegedly defaming Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. The court, however, granted bail to four other accused in the case registered in April by the Pune cyber police following a complaint by advocate Basavraj Yadvad.

Seven persons-Nikhil Sankpal, Datta Chaudhari, Baliram Pandit, Ashish Wankhede, Shailesh Varma, Bhumish Save, and Abhijit Phadnis -were named in the FIR and issued notices to join the investigation. Of them, only Sankpal, who originally uploaded the post, responded. The post was viewed over 16,000 times, liked by 895 users, and retweeted by 187, including t...