District Judge PC Bhagure rejected the anticipatory bail petition of Ekbote, defence counsel Prasad Kulkarni said.
Ekbote had approached the court seeking anticipatory bail.
A case was registered against Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide, who head the Hindu Ekta Aghadi and Shivraj Pratishthan respectively, for allegedly "inciting" the violence that left a man dead. Subsequent protests against the incident had disrupted normal life Maharashtra capital Mumbai.
A member of the Bahujan Republican Socialist Party from Pune had filed a police complaint against the two leaders under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, and various sections of the IPC, accusing them of "orchestrating" the violence.
Dalit organisations have been seeking arrest of the two leaders.
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