RSS leader gets anticipatory bail

: The District and Sessions Court here has granted anticipatory bail to a senior local RSS leader, Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat in connection with a case of delivering an allegedly communally provocative speech at the Hindu Sangama at Gurupur on January 5 last.
The Sessions Court judge Uma M G had earlier issued a non bailable arrest warrant against Bhat in the wake of a charge sheet filed against him on the basis of a complaint by one Mohammad, alleging that he had made a speech which hurt the sentiments of Muslims.
Police had filed the charge sheet against Bhat and the court had issued a non-bailable arrest warrant.

Bhat's counsel argued that the speech only stressed the need to create laws which treated all classes of people equally and sought opinion of all sections of people in this regard. It was not aimed at hurting the religious sentiments of any community, he said.