India, Oct. 18 -- The additional sessions court in Pune has discharged sitting MLA Jitendra Awhad from all charges in connection with a 2016 incident of violence at Fergusson College. The order, passed by additional sessions judge Aniruddha Subhash Gandhi on October 13 and made available on Saturday, observed that there was insufficient evidence to frame charges against the legislator.

Awhad, MLA of the Nationalist Congress Party/NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar/SP), 61, from Thane, had filed a criminal revision application challenging an earlier order of the judicial magistrate (first class), Pune, which rejected his plea for discharge on August 22, 2025.

The additional sessions court held that the magistrate's order was "not legal, proper and...