Maharashtra court sentences Nitesh Rane to 1-month jail

A Maharashtra court has sentenced BJP minister Nitesh Rane to one month in jail for a 2019 incident where he publicly humiliated an NHAI engineer. The court found Rane guilty under Section 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace), noting the act was an 'abuse of power' and unacceptable. In 2019, Rane, then an MLA, confronted the engineer over poor road work on the Mumbai–Goa Highway, dousing him with muddy water and forcing him to walk through slush.