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RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat has been granted anticipatory bail by the Fifth Additional District and Sessions Court in Puttur in connection with a hate speech case registered against him during a Deepavali event.

Eshwari Padmunj had filed a complaint at the Puttur Rural Police Station alleging that Prabhakar Bhat delivered a communally provocative speech during the Deepotsava and Gou Puja held on October 22 at Uppalige in Puttur taluk. Following the complaint, the police issued a notice summoning him for inquiry. Subsequently, Bhat filed an anticipatory bail petition before the court.

During the hearing on October 27, the court issued an interim order restraining the police from taking any coercive action and adjourned the case to October 29. On Octobe

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