{"id":306781,"date":"2018-12-09T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306781"},"modified":"2018-12-09T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T09:45:13","slug":"man-attacks-union-minister-ramdas-athawale-in-maharashtra-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/man-attacks-union-minister-ramdas-athawale-in-maharashtra-detained\/","title":{"rendered":"Man attacks Union Minister Ramdas Athawale in Maharashtra, detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306782 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ramdas-athawale-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ramdas-athawale-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ramdas-athawale-696x387.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ramdas-athawale-755x420.jpg 755w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ramdas-athawale.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A man had allegedly assaulted\u00a0Union\u00a0Minister\u00a0Ramdas\u00a0Athawale\u00a0at a public event in Maharashtra\u2019s Ambernath on Saturday night, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident happened when Athwale came down after delivering a speech and was about to leave the event, when the youth suddenly lunged at him, pushed and allegedly tried to slap him, following which people overpowered him and handed him over to the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Athawale&#8217;s personal bodyguards and police security pinned him down and whisked off from the venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The accused was identified as Pravin Gosavi. He was taken into custody by police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The motive behind the attack is not known yet and the investigation into the matter is underway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man had allegedly assaulted\u00a0Union\u00a0Minister\u00a0Ramdas\u00a0Athawale\u00a0at a public event in Maharashtra\u2019s Ambernath on Saturday night, officials said. The incident happened when Athwale came down after delivering a speech and was about to leave the event, when the youth suddenly lunged at him, pushed and allegedly tried to slap him, following which people overpowered him and handed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[10173,1467,10174,4786],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306783,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306781\/revisions\/306783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}