By way of PTI
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Police have shifted unbiased MP Navneet Rana to the Byculla ladies’s prison right here, whilst her MLA husband Ravi Rana used to be taken to Taloja prison in neighbouring Navi Mumbai amid tight safety, an legit mentioned on Monday.
The couple used to be arrested on Saturday when they gave a decision for the chanting of Hanuman Chalisa outdoor Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s non-public place of dwelling ‘Matoshree’ in Mumbai, which had precipitated offended protests by means of Shiv Sainiks.
The Mumbai Police later slapped the sedition price at the baby-kisser couple.
On Sunday, a Mumbai courtroom remanded the Rana couple in 14-day judicial custody.
Due to this fact, Navneet Rana, the MP from Amravati in Maharashtra, used to be overdue Sunday evening taken to the Byculla ladies’s prison.
Her husband Ravi Rana, the MLA from Badnera in Amravati, used to be first taken to the Arthur Street prison in Mumbai, however because of loss of good enough area there, he used to be taken to the Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai after of entirety of the prison formalities, the legit mentioned.
Previous, a case used to be registered towards Ranas below Sections 153A (selling enmity between other teams on grounds of faith, race, native land, place of dwelling, language, and many others, and doing acts prejudicial to upkeep of team spirit) and 34 (commonplace purpose) of the Indian Penal Code, and sections 37(1) and 135 of the Bombay Police Act.
Later, the police additionally added IPC Segment 124-A (sedition) within the case towards them.
Below IPC Segment 124-A, the offence of sedition is dedicated when any individual by means of phrases or in a different way brings or makes an attempt to convey into hatred or contempt, or excites or makes an attempt to excite disaffection against the federal government established by means of legislation.
The police had additionally registered every other FIR towards Ranas for allegedly obstructing police from appearing their accountability and resisting arrest at their place of dwelling in suburban Khar, the legit mentioned.
Maharashtra House Minister Dilip Walse Patil had on Sunday termed “suitable” the arrest of the Rana couple.
The police had additionally arrested 13 Shiv Sena staff on Sunday for allegedly protesting outdoor the Khar place of dwelling of Ranas on Saturday.
The birthday celebration staff had been later launched on bail, police previous mentioned.
