Overview
- A District Sessions Court in Nashik allowed anticipatory bail to Kalpana Kharat on Tuesday, updating her legal position in an FIR filed in April 2026 over a 2004 land transaction.
- Judge Kedar Joglekar found an inordinate delay of over two decades in filing the complaint and described the matter as a civil transaction given the facts and timing of the case.
- The FIR filed at Sinnar police station alleges a 16.5-acre plot was registered partly in Kalpana’s name in 2004 for Rs 1.37 lakh after rituals and threats by her husband Ashok Kharat.
- The court said there was no material to seize from Kalpana and that the allegations did not warrant custodial interrogation of her.
- Ashok Kharat remains in custody on separate sexual-assault complaints from March 2026, and the case against the couple may still see further police probe, appeals and civil suits that could change the legal outcome.