Arrests – Journalists

Tushar Abaji Kharat has been booked on charges of hurling casteist remarks against Shekhar Patole, 36, a BJP media cell functionary from Maan taluka and aide of BJP MLA Jaykumar Gore.
The Satara police on Sunday arrested Taytasaheb alias Tushar Abaji Kharat, the editor of Lay Bhari News, a local YouTube channel from Satara. Kharat was arrested from Mumbai and has been booked in two separate cases by the Satara police.
In a case registered on Saturday at Vaduj police station in Satara, Kharat has been booked on charges of hurling casteist remarks against Shekhar Patole, 36, a BJP media cell functionary from Maan taluka and aide of BJP MLA Jaykumar Gore. Patole has alleged Kharat made derogatory and casteist remarks against him in November last year, assaulted him, snatched his cellphone and portable hard disk and spread defamatory content about him on the YouTube channel.