New Delhi: A Bathinda court on Monday granted bail to actor-politician Kangana Ranaut in a criminal defamation case where she was accused of posting defamatory remarks on social media about an elderly woman farmer during the 2020-2021 farmers’ protests.

Saying that there was a “misunderstanding” about her 2021 post and that she respects every ‘mata’ or mother, Kangana also added that she was deeply apologetic over the incident. However, the aggrieved family is yet to accept her apology.

Speaking to ThePrint, complainant Mahinder Kaur’s lawyer Raghbir Singh Behniwal said, “The family’s stance is, why is she apologising four years after the incident, and that too after having gone to the Supreme Court and challenging our case. However, they maintain that they have full faith in the legal

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