Mumbai, May 15 -- A court here on Thursday issued a bailable warrant against Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane on a defamation complaint filed by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut.
While issuing warrant, First Class Judicial Magistrate of Mazgaon court Aarti Kulkarni adjourned the hearing till June two with a direction to police to submit a report in this regard.
Earlier too, the court had issued multiple warrants against Rane for failing to appear before the court for the hearing of the case.
In his plea before the local court, Raut, a Rajya Sabha member, contended that in May 2023 Rane had made highly defamatory remarks against him while calling him a "snake" who would ditch Uddhav Thackeray and join the (undivided) NCP by June that ye...