India, Oct. 17 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted pre-arrest bail to retired civil servant Dilip Khedekar, who was booked for kidnapping the helper of a ready mix concrete (RMC) truck and detaining him overnight at his Pune residence.

In Khedkar's bail application, filed through advocate Abhishek Yende, he claimed that he was falsely implicated in the case. He told the court that following the recent Lok Sabha elections, a fake narrative was created to falsely and maliciously implicate him. Justice NR Borkar accepted the arguments and granted anticipatory bail to Khedkar, who had approached the high court after the sessions court at Belapur rejected his pre-arrest bail plea on October 8.

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