The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar's father, Dilip Khedkar, accused of kidnapping a truck cleaner after a road rage incident last month.

A bench of Justice N R Borkar, while granting the pre-arrest bail, directed Dilip Khedkar to give Rs 4 lakh to the cleaner -- Prahlad Kumar -- within six weeks and deposit Rs 1 lakh with the police welfare fund.

Khedkar had moved the high court after a Navi Mumbai sessions court rejected his anticipatory bail plea.

He has been on the run since the alleged incident occurred on September 13 on the Mulund-Airoli Road in Navi Mumbai.

As per the FIR, a cement-mixer truck grazed an SUV owned by Dilip Khedkar, following which, he and his driver-cum-bodyguard, Praful Salunkhe, had an altercation

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