A Sessions Court in Sindhudurg has convicted Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nitesh Rane for intentionally insulting a public servant on Monday (April 27, 2026). The court sentenced Rane to one month of imprisonment and a fine of ₹1 lakh for forcing a National Highways Authority engineer to walk on a mud road.

Additional Sessions Judge V.S. Deshmukh held that Rane, then an MLA from the Congress party, compelled Prakash Shedekar, a Sub-Divisional Engineer with the National Highways Authority (NHA), to walk on a road covered in mud. The incident occurred in Kankavali, Rane’s constituency, on July 4, 2019.