By way of PTI
MUMBAI: A distinct court docket here’s more likely to make a decision the bail plea of jailed Impartial MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana on Might 2.
The couple had moved court docket looking for bail in an FIR registered via Mumbai police below provisions associated with sedition and selling enmity following their plan to recite Hanuman Chalisa out of doors Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s non-public place of abode right here.
On Saturday, each prosecution and defence finished their arguments, and then Particular Pass judgement on RN Rokade reserved the order for Monday.
The bail plea of the legislator couple contended {that a} name to recite Hanuman Chalisa out of doors ‘Matoshree’, the CM’s non-public place of abode in Bandra East, can’t be mentioned to be calculated to advertise emotions of enmity or hatred.
It additionally mentioned the price below phase 153(A) can’t be sustained, including that there was once no goal at the a part of the candidates to instigate or create hatred via reciting Hanuman Chalisa close to the CM’s non-public house.
Their bail plea additionally claimed that via no stretch of creativeness can the acts of the candidates be said to represent the offence of sedition.
It added that Mumbai police had issued realize below phase 149 of the Code of Prison Process (CrPC) and the applicant had complied with it and had no longer stepped out of her place of abode.
Amravati Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana, who’s MLA from Badnera, had sooner or later dropped their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa out of doors Matoshree on April 23 mentioning the consult with of High Minister Narendra Modi to Mumbai for an award rite the next day to come.