Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde has been fined Rs 300 by a local court for her repeated failure to appear in a long-standing case concerning the assault of two school teachers. This case has been ongoing for seven years, highlighting ongoing legal challenges faced by the mayor in fulfilling her court obligations.
Tawde’s lawyer on Tuesday applied for exemption for her from remaining present in the court. The court has framed charges against the BJP corporator and other accused, and the trial is about to start. Tawde and others allegedly assaulted two school teachers.
The incident had taken place on July 29, 2016, at a municipal Urdu-medium school in Vakola area. The court allowed the fresh exemption plea filed by Tawde and two other accused, but imposed a cost of Rs 300 on each of them. The amount should be paid before the next date of hearing (October 7), it said. On July 29, 2016, Tawde and six others entered the school and had a heated exchange with the management over the transfer of a teacher who had cancer, according to the prosecution.
Additional Sessions Judge G G Bhansali noted that the court had granted her exemption at the previous hearing as the “last chance”. Tawde has claimed that her presence at the spot was “coincidental and unrelated to the alleged mob incident”. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde Fined Rs 300 For No-Show In Court In Assault Case
The FIR in the case was registered on August 11, 2016.
