Maharashtra MLA, Out On Bail And Named In New Case, "Decides To Resign" | Read

Jitendra Awhad, a legislator from Sharad Pawar's NCP, has tweeted that after "two false cases against me in 72 hours... I have decided to resign as MLA".  On bail after his arrest last week for disrupting a show of Marathi film 'Har Har Mahadev' in Thane over "distorting the history of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj", the former minister is now accused of assaulting a woman. A case registered under the Indian Penal Code Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) has been registered as he allegedly pushed her during a public event at the opening of a bridge in Mumbra on November 13.