Kamaal R Khan, also known as KRK, was released on bail by a Mumbai court on Tuesday, according to a report. The former actor and film critic was arrested in connection with a 2021 sexual assault case registered against him by Versova police. Kamaal, however, will remain in jail as his bail plea is pending in Borivali Magistrates Court in another 2020 case related to his alleged derogatory tweets about the actor. Akshay Kumar, filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma, and others. Read more: Shatrughan Sinha defends Kamaal R Khan after his arrest

KRK’s bail request in the 2020 case is set to be heard in Borivali Metropolitan Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. K.R.K. was arrested at Mumbai airport on August 30 for his old tweets and taken into custody by the Borivali Magistrate’s Court.

According to a PTI report, Versova police took custody of KRK in the indecent assault case on Sunday and he was brought before the Bandra court. Kamaal, in his bail plea filed through his lawyers in the Bandra Magistrate’s Court, said that the contents of the first information report (FIR) did not substantially match the incident of alleged assault.

His lawyers argued in court that the FIR was registered 18 months after the incident and that too after the victim’s friend asked him to do so, PTI reported. He further argued that the section of the Indian Penal Code invoked against KRK was bailable. The court allowed KRK’s plea. The assault case against KRK was reportedly filed in June 2021 based on the complaint of a 27-year-old woman. The plaintiff alleged that KRK called her to her bungalow in Versova on the pretext of offering her the lead role in a movie.

According to PTI, police said tweets posted by KRK in 2020 were communal and that he targeted Bollywood figures. He was convicted in 2020 under Sections 153 (gratuitous provocation with intent to riot) and 500 (sentence for defamation) and other provisions of the IPC and Information Technology Act .

Actor Taapsee Pannu and filmmaker Hansal Mehta had recently spoken about KRK’s tweet against the film industry. “They’ve denounced every one of my movies. Because they don’t get any money from me because I don’t send any of those things you have to write good things about me and I don’t really acknowledge their presence. people who are like deemak (termites), gnawing and destroying the very fiber of the base on which they stand,” Taapsee said.