{"id":35338,"date":"2014-09-27T14:56:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T09:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35338"},"modified":"2014-09-27T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T09:26:52","slug":"vj-siddharth-bhardwaj-gets-pre-arrest-bail-molestation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/vj-siddharth-bhardwaj-gets-pre-arrest-bail-molestation-case","title":{"rendered":"VJ Siddharth Bhardwaj gets pre-arrest bail in molestation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sessions court here today granted anticipatory bail to the video jockey and former reality show contestant Siddharth Bhardwaj who is facing a criminal case for alleged molestation. &#8220;The court granted pre-arrest bail to Bhardwaj,&#8221; public prosecutor Nilima Kasture said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/VJ-Siddharth-Bhardwaj.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35339\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/vj-siddharth-bhardwaj-gets-pre-arrest-bail-molestation-case\/vj-siddharth-bhardwaj\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/VJ-Siddharth-Bhardwaj.png?fit=277%2C182&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"277,182\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"VJ Siddharth Bhardwaj\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/VJ-Siddharth-Bhardwaj.png?fit=277%2C182&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35339\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/VJ-Siddharth-Bhardwaj.png?resize=277%2C182&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"VJ Siddharth Bhardwaj\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/VJ-Siddharth-Bhardwaj.png?w=277&amp;ssl=1 277w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/VJ-Siddharth-Bhardwaj.png?resize=150%2C98&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a>Suburban Oshiwara police had last month registered a case under sections 354 (outraging woman&#8217;s modesty), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the Indian Penal Code against Bhardwaj.<br \/>\nAccording to the police, Bhardwaj had an altercation with the complainant girl after her car bumped into the rear-side of his car. In the course of altercation, he allegedly abused and assaulted her. Judge Vrushali Joshi granted pre-arrest bail to Bhardwaj observing that his custodial interrogation was not necessary. &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sessions court here today granted anticipatory bail to the video jockey and former reality show contestant Siddharth Bhardwaj who is facing a criminal case for alleged molestation. &#8220;The court granted pre-arrest bail to Bhardwaj,&#8221; public prosecutor Nilima Kasture said. Suburban Oshiwara police had last month registered a case under sections 354 (outraging woman&#8217;s modesty), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84,1954],"tags":[29870,29869,29871,29867,29868],"class_list":["post-35338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-law-news","category-high-profile-cases","tag-anticipatory-bail-to-siddharth-bhardwaj","tag-molestation-case","tag-siddharth-bhardwaj","tag-vj-siddharth-bhardwaj-gets-pre-arrest-bail","tag-vj-siddharth-bhardwaj-in-molestation-case"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VJ Siddharth Bhardwaj gets pre-arrest bail in molestation case - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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