A court in Sindhudurg has sentenced Maharashtra minister and BJP leader Nitesh Rane to one month's imprisonment in a 2019 case of pouring mud on an NHAI engineer. While passing the order, the court noted that lawmakers are not supposed to take the law into their hands.

However, the court suspended Rane's sentence after the conviction on Monday and allowed him time to appeal before a higher court while acquitting 29 other accused in the case, news agency PTI reported.