Mumbai: An application has been made to transfer a Public Interest Litigation seeking the prosecution of Member of the Legislative Assembly, Gopichand Padalkar, for allegedly making hate speeches against the Christian community, from the Kolhapur bench of the Bombay High Court to the court's principal seat in Mumbai.

The petitioner, Melwyn Fernandes, had been given permission by the Kolhapur bench to apply for the transfer of the case to Mumbai. The PIL was sent to Kolhapur after a new bench was set up in the city.

On November 7, a bench of Justice M S Karnik and Ajit Kadethankar, allowed the petitioner the liberty to write to the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court to apply for the transfer of the case to Mumbai. Padalkar, while speaking at a public event in Sangli on June 17, is al

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