The incident took place last Thursday after Rane arrived at a highway near Kankavali with some of his supporters to conduct an inspection of the work done by the government authorities.
Congress MLA Nitesh Rane and 18 of his supporters were sent to 14-day judicial custody on Tuesday by a Kankavali court in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district.
Rane and his supporters had been sent to police custody on Friday till July 9 following their arrest for assaulting a PWD engineer and throwing mud on him. They were produced before the court after the police custody ended on Tuesday.
Since the court has now sent them to judicial custody, they can apply for bail.
The incident took place last Thursday after Rane arrived at a highway near Kankavali with some of his supporters to conduct an inspection of the work done by the government authorities.
He also called PWD engineer Prakash Khadekar to the spot. When the official got there, Rane reprimanded him over the state of the highway, which is riddled with potholes.
The whole incident was captured in a video that went viral. In the footage, Rane's supporters can be seen flinging buckets of mud on Khadekar before tying him to the railing of the bridge.
Later, the engineer filed a complaint under Indian Penal Code Section 353 (assault on government servant) against Rane and his supporters.
Rane is the Congress MLA from Kankanavi area. He is the son of BJP-nominated Rajya Sabha MP Narayan Rane, who is a veteran state politician and a former chief minister.
Rane, however, justified his action and said he would oversee the repair work himself.
"Now I will myself oversee the repair work on this highway, with a stick in my hand. Everyday at 7 am I will reach here. Let me see how does the Govt system win against us. We have the medicine to tackle their arrogance," he had said.
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