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  • Political perspective at the back of sedition fee in opposition to Rana couple, legal professional tells Mumbai courtroom

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: The sedition fee in opposition to Impartial Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana in Maharashtra was once invoked because of “political upheaval”, their legal professional informed a different courtroom right here on Thursday whilst opposing a police plea looking for cancellation in their bail in a case associated with Hanuman Chalisa recitation.

    Each the defence and prosecution finished their arguments at the plea on Thursday following which particular Pass judgement on R N Rokade posted the subject for order on August 22.

    Opposing the bail cancellation plea, suggest Rizwan Mechant, showing for the Ranas, stated the Indian Penal Code (IPC) segment 124A (sedition) was once invoked in opposition to the couple on account of “political upheaval” between two teams.

    However the Very best Courtroom has stayed each case underneath the sedition fee.

    “In order that they (prosecution) can not ask for a overview of that order” All that is still now’s IPC segment 153A (selling enmity), he stated.

    On Would possibly 11, the apex courtroom placed on grasp the colonial-era penal legislation on sedition until an “suitable” govt discussion board re-examines it and directed the Centre and states not to sign up any contemporary FIR invoking the offence.

    In some of the circumstances registered by means of the Mumbai police, the Rana couple was once booked underneath IPC sections 124A and in addition 153A (selling enmity between other teams on grounds of faith, race, homeland, place of dwelling, language, and doing acts prejudicial to upkeep of unity).

    The Ranas had been arrested by means of the police in Mumbai on April 23 once they introduced that they’re going to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outdoor the then-Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s personal place of dwelling ‘Matoshree’ in suburban Bandra, resulting in protests by means of Shiv Sena employees.

    On Would possibly 5, Pass judgement on Rokade granted the Ranas bail with sure prerequisites, one in every of which avoided the lawmaker-couple from Amravati from making any observation associated with the case to the media.

    A couple of days later the police approached the particular courtroom looking for that the bail of Navneet Rana, the Lok Sabha MP from Amravati, and Ravi Rana, the Impartial MLA from the similar district in jap Maharashtra, be cancelled as they’d allegedly violated bail prerequisites.

    Relating to the media interplay the couple had after popping out of the jail, particular public prosecutor Pradip Gharat argued that the duo had breached the bail situation of now not talking to journalists at the case and therefore they will have to be despatched again to judicial custody.

    The instant they talk to the media on an issue associated with the case, their bail stands cancelled, Gharat argued.

    Then again, Service provider submitted that the alleged media “interview” discussed within the plea was once now not in appreciate to the subject material of the case.

    This was once a unmarried incident and thereafter there was once no interview, Service provider submitted.

    The interview was once now not produced prior to the courtroom “the courtroom will have to have noticed the interview in totality,” the defence recommend stated.

    The click is a medium to succeed in out to the general public, this isn’t an act to insult the courtroom, the legal professional argued.

    Other folks’s freedom can also be curtailed provided that there may be an excessive step and this (interview) was once now not one such act. it didn’t quantity to interference in probe or inciting the general public to create legislation and order scenario, Service provider stated.

    MUMBAI: The sedition fee in opposition to Impartial Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana in Maharashtra was once invoked because of “political upheaval”, their legal professional informed a different courtroom right here on Thursday whilst opposing a police plea looking for cancellation in their bail in a case associated with Hanuman Chalisa recitation.

    Each the defence and prosecution finished their arguments at the plea on Thursday following which particular Pass judgement on R N Rokade posted the subject for order on August 22.

    Opposing the bail cancellation plea, suggest Rizwan Mechant, showing for the Ranas, stated the Indian Penal Code (IPC) segment 124A (sedition) was once invoked in opposition to the couple on account of “political upheaval” between two teams.

    However the Very best Courtroom has stayed each case underneath the sedition fee.

    “In order that they (prosecution) can not ask for a overview of that order” All that is still now’s IPC segment 153A (selling enmity), he stated.

    On Would possibly 11, the apex courtroom placed on grasp the colonial-era penal legislation on sedition until an “suitable” govt discussion board re-examines it and directed the Centre and states not to sign up any contemporary FIR invoking the offence.

    In some of the circumstances registered by means of the Mumbai police, the Rana couple was once booked underneath IPC sections 124A and in addition 153A (selling enmity between other teams on grounds of faith, race, homeland, place of dwelling, language, and doing acts prejudicial to upkeep of unity).

    The Ranas had been arrested by means of the police in Mumbai on April 23 once they introduced that they’re going to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outdoor the then-Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s personal place of dwelling ‘Matoshree’ in suburban Bandra, resulting in protests by means of Shiv Sena employees.

    On Would possibly 5, Pass judgement on Rokade granted the Ranas bail with sure prerequisites, one in every of which avoided the lawmaker-couple from Amravati from making any observation associated with the case to the media.

    A couple of days later the police approached the particular courtroom looking for that the bail of Navneet Rana, the Lok Sabha MP from Amravati, and Ravi Rana, the Impartial MLA from the similar district in jap Maharashtra, be cancelled as they’d allegedly violated bail prerequisites.

    Relating to the media interplay the couple had after popping out of the jail, particular public prosecutor Pradip Gharat argued that the duo had breached the bail situation of now not talking to journalists at the case and therefore they will have to be despatched again to judicial custody.

    The instant they talk to the media on an issue associated with the case, their bail stands cancelled, Gharat argued.

    Then again, Service provider submitted that the alleged media “interview” discussed within the plea was once now not in appreciate to the subject material of the case.

    This was once a unmarried incident and thereafter there was once no interview, Service provider submitted.

    The interview was once now not produced prior to the courtroom “the courtroom will have to have noticed the interview in totality,” the defence recommend stated.

    The click is a medium to succeed in out to the general public, this isn’t an act to insult the courtroom, the legal professional argued.

    Other folks’s freedom can also be curtailed provided that there may be an excessive step and this (interview) was once now not one such act. it didn’t quantity to interference in probe or inciting the general public to create legislation and order scenario, Service provider stated.

  • Rana couple pray at Hanuman temple in Delhi for Thackeray’s ouster 

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Unbiased lawmakers Navneet and Ravi Rana on Saturday recited the Hanuman Chalisa on the Hanuman temple right here and claimed to have prayed for removing of the “largest risk looming over Maharashtra within the type of Shiv Sena”.

    The couple was once arrested ultimate month on sedition fees after a choice for reciting the Hanuman Chalisa outdoor Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s place of dwelling in Mumbai and launched on bail 12 days later.

    Wearing a saffron sari and accompanied via her husband and rankings of supporters, Navneet Rana, the unbiased Lok Sabha member from Amravati, walked on foot from her North Road place of dwelling to the Hanuman temple in Connaught Position to supply prayers.

    “Uddhav Thackeray is the largest risk looming over Maharashtra. I’ve come to supply prayers to rid Maharashtra of this risk,” Navneet informed newshounds outdoor the temple.

    The Rana couple additionally carried out aarti on the temple.

    The temple discuss with comes on an afternoon when Thackeray is scheduled to deal with an enormous rally in Mumbai.

    In the meantime, Navneet Rana accused the Shiv Sena of forsaking the reason for Hindutva via becoming a member of palms with the Congress and NCP to seize energy in Maharashtra.

    “Uddhav Thackeray has forgotten the legacy of Balasaheb Thackeray. Balasaheb was once the actual torchbearer of Hindutva, those are duplicates,” she mentioned to questions about Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut’s remarks that the time had come to turn the actual taste of Shiv Sena.

    Navneet Rana dared Thackeray to do so towards “the ones providing prayers at Aurangzeb’s grave” as a substitute of focused on her for espousing the reason for Hindutva.

    AIMIM chief Akbaruddin Owaisi had presented prayers on the grave of Mughal ruler Aurangzeb at Khuldabad, close to Aurangabad in Maharashtra.

    Maintaining the assault on Shiv Sena, the Rana couple mentioned they’d “overthrow Shiv Sena’s Lanka of corruption” from Mumbai Municipal Company, the place elections are due.

    Shiv Sena has been controlling the reins of energy in Mumbai municipal company, the rustic’s richest civic frame, since 1996.

    The fight of Mumbai municipal company is keenly watched because it has an annual finances of over Rs 30,000 crore, which is greater than that of one of the vital smaller states within the nation.

  • Particular courtroom directs Rana couple to seem after Mumbai police search cancellation in their bail

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: A unique courtroom right here on Monday issued a understand to unbiased MP Navneet Rana and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana, accused in a sedition case following a row over recitation of Hanuman Chalisa, and requested them to seem prior to it on Would possibly 18, pursuant to an utility filed by means of the Mumbai police urging for his or her bail to be cancelled.

    The police sought that the couple’s bail be cancelled at the flooring that that they had allegedly violated one of the crucial stipulations imposed by means of the particular courtroom whilst granting them bail final week.

    Particular Pass judgement on R N Rokade on Monday in brief heard particular public prosecutor Pradip Gharat after which issued a understand and directed the Rana couple to seem prior to it on Would possibly 18.

    “Factor understand to the respondents (Navneet Rana and Ravi Rana) to seem prior to this courtroom on Would possibly 18,” the courtroom mentioned.

    Navneet Rana, the Lok Sabha member from Amravati in Maharashtra, and her husband Ravi Rana, the MLA from Badnera in Amravati, have been arrested by means of the Mumbai police on April 23 when they introduced that they’d recite the Hanuman Chalisa outdoor Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s non-public place of dwelling ‘Matoshree’ in Bandra house right here.

    They have been booked on fees of sedition and prompting enmity between other teams.

    The particular courtroom had on Would possibly 4 granted bail to the couple and imposed some stipulations on them, together with to not take pleasure in a equivalent offence and to not discuss to the media.

    On Monday, the suburban Khar police filed an utility via Pradip Gharat, in search of that the courtroom cancel the couple’s bail as that they had allegedly violated the situation of now not talking to the media.

    “The accused individuals (Navneet Rana and Ravi Rana) have given interviews to media since their unencumber and therefore, flouted the situation imposed by means of the particular courtroom whilst granting them bail.

    We’re in search of for the bail to be cancelled and a warrant to be issued to the accused and so they be taken in custody forthwith,” Gharat mentioned.

    He additional advised the courtroom that the couple has now long past to Delhi.

    Within the utility, the police famous that the courtroom, whilst granting bail to the accused, mentioned if any of the stipulations imposed by means of it used to be violated, then it will quantity to cancellation in their bail.

    The accused individuals, right away after popping out of prison, began giving media bytes, pronouncing they’re prepared to stay in prison for 14 years if studying of the Hanuman Chalisa is an offence, and made a number of feedback on CM Uddhav Thackeray, the police discussed of their utility.

  • Hanuman Chalisa row: Mumbai police information plea in the hunt for cancellation of Rana couple’s bail 

    By way of PTI

    MUMBAI: The Mumbai police on Monday filed an utility in a different court docket right here in the hunt for cancellation of the bail granted to unbiased MP Navneet Rana and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana, accused in a sedition case following a row over the recitation of Hanuman Chalisa.

    The police sought that the couple’s bail be cancelled at the flooring that that they had allegedly violated one of the crucial stipulations imposed by means of the particular court docket whilst granting them bail closing week.

    Navneet Rana, the Lok Sabha member from Amravati in Maharashtra, and her husband Ravi Rana, the legislator from Badnera in Amravati, had been arrested by means of the Mumbai police on April 23 when they introduced that they’d recite the Hanuman Chalisa out of doors Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s personal place of abode ‘Matoshree’ in Bandra house right here.

    They had been booked on fees of sedition and prompting enmity between other teams.

    The particular court docket had on Might 4 granted bail to the couple and imposed some stipulations on them, together with to not bask in a an identical offence and to not talk to the media.

    On Monday, the suburban Khar police filed an utility thru particular public prosecutor Pradip Gharat, in the hunt for that the court docket cancel the couple’s bail as that they had allegedly violated the situation of no longer chatting with the media.

    “The accused individuals (Navneet Rana and Ravi Rana) have given interviews to media since their unencumber and therefore, flouted the situation imposed by means of the particular court docket whilst granting them bail.

    We’re in the hunt for for the bail to be cancelled and a warrant to be issued to the accused they usually be taken in custody forthwith,” Gharat stated.

  • Will manner PM Modi towards our ‘ill-treatment’ via Uddhav govt: Rana couple

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: Unbiased MP Navneet Rana and her MLA-husband Ravi on Monday mentioned they’ll manner Top Minister Narendra Modi and Union House Minister Amit Shah to boost the problem in their alleged ill-treatment via Maharashtra government when the couple was once in prison not too long ago.

    Chatting with newshounds right here, Navneet Rana mentioned Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray, “who back-stabbed the BJP”, must now not communicate and educate the Ranas about rules.

    The Ranas additionally pushed aside the allegation that they dedicated contempt of courtroom via chatting with the media.

    On Might 4, a different courtroom right here whilst granting bail to the couple mentioned the duo shall now not dedicate a an identical offence whilst on bail, and now not cope with the click on any matter associated with the case.

    The couple was once arrested on April 23 via the Mumbai police once they introduced that they might recite ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ outdoor Leader Minister Thackeray’s non-public place of abode ‘Matoshree’ right here, which had angered staff of the Shiv Sena, Thackeray’s birthday celebration, resulting in pressure.

    They walked out of prison on Might 5 following which Navneet Rana was once admitted to a non-public sanatorium right here.

    Her attorney had then mentioned she had court cases of hypertension, body-ache and spondylitis.

    She was once discharged from the sanatorium on Sunday.

    “We’re going to Delhi nowadays and meet the entire leaders who recognize ladies. I’m going to satisfy the high minister, (Union) house minister and Lok Sabha Speaker and inform them how we have been ill-treated from a lockup to prison. I’m going to bitch about it,” mentioned Navneet Rana, who was once flanked via her husband.

    Describing Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut as a “parrot”, Navneet Rana alleged that he had mentioned “burying the couple”.

    “We had filed a grievance towards it right here, however no motion was once taken. So, I’m going to Delhi to boost the problem,” she mentioned.

    The Ranas additionally categorically denied having dedicated any contempt of courtroom via chatting with the click.

    “We didn’t communicate in regards to the offence, the way it was once registered towards us, reciting ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ and Matoshree. We spoke about how I used to be ill-treated from the lockup to prison and the way my well being problems have been have shyed away from (disregarded),” she mentioned.

    The Lok Sabha member from Amravati puzzled will be the destiny of not unusual other folks if a public consultant like her may well be handled “in this kind of means” in Maharashtra.

    “So, it was once vital for me to talk up and the Charter has given me the fitting as a public consultant. No one must grasp my rights from me,” she mentioned.

    She mentioned CM Thackeray must discover ways to run the state from his predecessor and BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis.

    “Devendra Fadnavis ji additionally ran the federal government for 5 years, however he was once now not this shrewd. Thackeray must be informed from Devendra sahab run Maharashtra (govt) and with what sentiments,” she mentioned.

    She additional mentioned that Thackeray, “who back-stabbed the BJP”, must now not communicate and educate the Ranas about rules.

    Ravi Rana, the MLA from Badnera in Amravati, additionally hit out at CM Thackeray over the Brihamumbai Municipal Company issuing a understand to the housing society the place they reside in suburban Khar right here following a grievance of unlawful development.

    “Thackeray must check up on our flat on-line since he labored simplest during the on-line platform for the previous two-and-half years,” he quipped.

    “You (the CM) can ship Raut and (some other Shiv Sena chief and state minister) Anil Parab, your proper and left (fingers), who’re sitting idle. You’ll ship them to take the measurements (of the home) if there may be any drawback. We can welcome them,” the MLA mentioned.

    To a query, Ravi Rana mentioned Maharashtra Deputy Leader Minister Ajit Pawar must take knowledge on how the couple was once allegedly ill-treated after they have been within the lockup and prison.

    “We have been handled worse than a legal,” he alleged, whilst responding to Pawar’s reported commentary that the duo was once served tea when taken to Khar police station sooner than their arrest.

  • Hanuman Chalisa row: Bail plea of Rana couple more likely to be made up our minds on Might 2 

    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.
     

  • After Mumbai most sensible cop posts tea-sipping clip, Rana says she was once ill-treated in lock-up of Santacruz police officers

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: Hours after Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey tweeted a video of MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana sipping tea whilst in police custody, the parliamentarian on Tuesday issued a explanation thru her legal professional claiming that “ill-treatment” was once meted out to her within the lock-up of the Santacruz police station after her arrest ultimate Saturday, and now not on the Khar police station.

    Significantly, the Unbiased MP from Amravati had previous written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla claiming that she was once meted with “inhuman medication” within the “Khar police station” after her “unlawful arrest”, through which she was once denied water to drink and confronted casteist slurs.

    Recommend Rizwan Service provider, representing Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana in courts, stated, “It seems that that there’s some tweet which is being floated round on social media thru police commissioner Sanjay Pandey concerning the criticism made through (Navneet) Rana with regard to grievances of being subjected to ill-treatment whilst in police custody through now not being equipped fundamental amenities like water, bathroom and many others.”

    “I simply wish to explain that the tweet of Sanjay Pandey sir is concerning the time spent through my shopper on the Khar police station after being arrested. The officials did be offering tea, there’s no doubt about it. However they (the Rana couple) have been on the Khar police station until 1 AM. Roughly, after 1 AM, they (the Rana couple) have been transferred to the lock-up of the Santacruz police station the place they have been detained for the remainder of the night time till they have been produced sooner than the courtroom,” Service provider claimed.

    He stated the criticism of Navneet Rana being subjected to ill-treatment isn’t in regards to the detention on the Khar police station however in regards to the detention on the lock-up of the Santacruz police station.

    In her letter to the LS Speaker, Navneet Rana had additionally mentioned that she was once being submit on the police station with out due regard to the administrative center held through her and was once now not given consuming water whilst in police custody.

    Navneet additionally alleged that she was once abused because of her caste. “I used to be taken to the Khar Police Station on 23.04.2022 and I spent the night time within the police station on 23.04.2022. I made a number of and repeated calls for for consuming water all the way through the night time, then again, no consuming water was once equipped to me all the way through the night time”, Navneet Rana had stated within the letter.

    She sought motion towards the Mumbai commissioner of police and different most sensible officials over her “unlawful” arrest.

    The Lok Sabha Secretariat on Monday sought main points from the Maharashtra govt inside 24 hours following the allegations made through Navneet Rana towards the police after her arrest.

    Previous within the day, the Mumbai police commissioner tweeted a 12-second video from his verified Twitter deal with @sanjayp_1 at 2 pm with the caption, “Do we are saying the rest extra”.

    The video clip presentations the Rana couple sitting on chairs and sipping tea in entrance of police officers at a police station. Bottles of mineral water also are observed at the desk in entrance of them.

    Navneet Rana and Ravi Rana have been arrested on Saturday once they gave a choice for the chanting of the Hanuman Chalisa out of doors Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s non-public place of abode ‘Matoshree’ in Mumbai, which had brought on indignant protests through Shiv Sainiks.

    The couple later withdrew their name, bringing up Top Minister Narendra Modi’s talk over with to Mumbai for an match. The lawmaker couple was once booked for sedition but even so different fees.

    The video tweeted through the Mumbai police commissioner has been retweeted a couple of instances and evoked a number of ‘likes’ from netizens. The lawmaker couple is recently in judicial custody.

    The classes courtroom in Mumbai has posted their bail software for listening to on April 29. Navneet Rana is lodged at Byculla prison in Mumbai and Ravi Rana at Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai.

  • Mumbai police filed faux FIR in my identify: Former MP Kirit Somaiya

    Through PTI

    MUMBAI:  Former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya on Tuesday claimed {that a} faux FIR was once filed in his identify at Khar police station in Mumbai which he had no longer even signed, days after his automobile was once vandalised whilst he was once getting back from the police station after assembly arrested unbiased MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana.

    Speaking to journalists out of doors the Khar police station, Somaiya claimed some “goons” have been despatched by way of Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray to assault him.

    “They will have to face strict motion. It’ll occur needless to say,” the BJP chief mentioned ahead of getting into the police station.

    “The Mumbai police filed a pretend FIR in my identify, it’s not signed by way of me. Is Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey ignorant of such legality? I got here right here to document a real FIR towards the faux FIR filed by way of the police,” he mentioned.

    The Mumbai police past due Saturday evening registered an FIR towards Somaiya’s motive force for allegedly riding in rash and negligent approach, because of which a Shiv Sena corporator and a birthday celebration employee suffered minor accidents, an legitimate previous mentioned.

    The police had on Monday additionally arrested 4 Shiv Sena individuals, together with former town Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar, for allegedly vandalising Somaiya’s automobile.

    Some other folks had vandalised Somaiya’s automobile on Saturday night time when he was once getting back from Khar police station after assembly unbiased MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana following their arrest.

    The Rana couple’s plan to recite Hanuman Chalisa out of doors ‘Matoshree’, the private place of abode of CM Thackeray, on Saturday morning had angered Shiv Sena staff.

    Amid Shiv Sena’s stiff resistance, the Rana couple later cancelled the plan, however the duo was once arrested.

    Maharashtra House Minister Dilip Walse Patil had mentioned Somaiya will have to know that arrested individuals can most effective meet their felony recommend or family members, and that the BJP chief had no industry to visit the police station to fulfill the Rana couple.

  • Hanuman Chalisa: HC refuses to quash FIR towards Ranas; says public officers should act extra responsibly 

    Through PTI

    MUMBAI: The Bombay Top Court docket Monday pushed aside a writ petition filed through lawmaker couple Navneet Rana and Ravi Rana, arrested beneath more than a few fees in reference to the Hanuman Chalisa controversy, searching for that some of the two FIRs registered towards them beneath segment 353 of the IPC be quashed.

    The courtroom stated the petitioners and all others occupying public positions should act extra responsibly and display appreciate in opposition to different public individuals.

    “As is frequently stated, with nice energy comes nice accountability,” a bench of Justices P B Varale and S M Modak noticed, including they discovered no advantage within the plea filed through the Rana couple.

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    The bench, alternatively, stated that if the police come to a decision to arrest the Ranas or take every other coercive motion towards them in keeping with the second one FIR, it should give them understand of 72 hours.

    The Khar police in Mumbai registered two FIRs (First Knowledge Stories) towards Impartial MP from Amravati Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana between April 23 and April 24, following their observation that they might recite ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ outdoor Maharashtra leader minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray’s non-public place of abode, ‘Matoshree’ in Bandra on April 23.

    Their announcement induced offended protests through Shiv Sena staff who collected outdoor the couple’s place of abode in Khar house on Saturday searching for their apology.

    The primary FIR towards the Ranas used to be filed at Khar police station round 5:30 PM on April 23 at the fee of selling enmity between other religions.

    The police due to this fact added the fee of sedition to this FIR.

    On April 24, a 2d FIR used to be filed towards the Ranas at round 2 AM beneath segment 353 (Attack or prison pressure to discourage public servant from discharge of his responsibility) of the Indian Penal Code.

    In step with the second one FIR, when the Rana couple used to be arrested and requested to get within the police automobile, they argued with the police and “some dhakka-bukki (jostling)” happened.

    The Rana couple, lately in judicial custody, approached the top courtroom on Monday morning searching for the quashing of the second one FIR thru recommend Rizwan Service provider.

    Service provider instructed the HC that the entire offences have been a part of the similar tournament and that two separate FIRs were registered through the police out of vendetta- in order that if granted bail within the first FIR, the Ranas may also be arrested in the second one FIR.

    Particular Public Prosecutor (SPP) Pradip Gharat argued that each the FIRs have been the results of two separate incidents- the primary used to be in keeping with the declaration of the recitation (of Hanuman Chalisa), and the second used to be registered when the couple resisted arrest.

    The top courtroom stated it discovered advantage within the SPP’s submission.

    “Those are two impartial, other occasions and no longer a part of the similar sequence of occasions. We discover no explanation why to grant reduction,” the HC stated. 

    The bench, alternatively, stated that if the police made up our minds to arrest the Ranas or to take every other coercive motion towards them in keeping with the second one FIR, it should give them prior understand of 72 hours.

    The bench stated the Maharashtra executive were proper in apprehending regulation and order issues following the couple’s public statements on reciting the Hanuman Chalisa at ‘Matoshree’.

    “The FIRs display that those are two impartial occurrences. The primary incident, of the petitioners attaining Mumbai, announcing they have been going to recite on April 23 gave upward thrust to the primary FIR,” the HC stated.

    “The second one incident of resisting arrest gave upward thrust to the second one FIR beneath segment 353. The incidence of each occasions is at other instances. They’re impartial of one another and no longer a part of the similar central tournament,” it stated.

    Service provider argued that the Rana couple were arrested at the mere apprehension that they might recite the Hanuman Chalisa.

    “They (police) registered a selected offence handiest as a result of PM Narendra Modi used to be visiting the city (on April 24) they usually idea there shall be a regulation and order scenario. However this programme used to be cancelled.

    They sooner or later publicly made up our minds to drop the speculation,” Service provider stated regarding the Rana couple chickening out their plan to recite Hanuman Chalisa on Saturday, an afternoon forward of the PM’s discuss with to Mumbai.

    “Additionally, they by no means stated they’re going to recite it ‘at’ ‘Matoshree’. They stated ‘outdoor’ Matoshree,” Service provider argued.”

    The top courtroom, alternatively, stated that cancelling the deliberate recitation “didn’t topic”.

    SPP Gharat argued that the Ranas have been conscious that PM Modi used to be visiting Mumbai on April 24 and that their plan would motive an “explosive scenario” as the placement used to be already nerve-racking over the problem of loudspeakers at mosques.

    He additionally stated that the police had first of all booked the Ranas handiest at the fee of selling enmity.

    However after chatting with witnesses and recording statements, the police realised that the recitation plan used to be a “chilly and calculated transfer on their (Ranas) section to disturb the state executive. Therefore, the fee of sedition used to be added to the primary FIR”.

    The top courtroom stated the state executive’s worry appeared justified.

    “Any such declaration of the recitation at any person’s non-public place of abode and even at a public position is without a doubt originally the breach of the opposite individual’s non-public liberty (sic),” the HC stated.

    “Secondly, the state is justified in its apprehension that such act of reciting spiritual verse on the CM’s non-public space would lead to disturbance to regulation and order,” it stated.

    “We made an identical feedback simply two days again,” the top courtroom stated whilst regarding a listening to final week on Union minister Narayan Rane’s “slap” observation towards Uddhav Thackeray.

    “However we’re pained to mention that our phrases fell on deaf ears.

    We learned that we can’t be expecting anything else even from the ones occupying first rate posts ” the judges stated and pushed aside the plea of the Ranas, announcing that it used to be devoid of deserves.

    “The second one FIR relates to a special set of occasions. Those don’t seem to be a sequel to the primary set of occasions. Those are two impartial, other occasions and no longer a part of the similar sequence of occasions, we discover no explanation why to grant reduction,” the bench stated.

    This isn’t the MP-MLA couple’s first brush with controversy.

    The Bombay top courtroom in June final 12 months cancelled the caste certificates issued to Navneet Kaur Rana, announcing it used to be got fraudulently the use of fabricated paperwork.

    In January this 12 months, the Ranas had discovered themselves embroiled in any other criminal case, after Ravi Rana used to be booked for try to homicide over an attack at the Amravati municipal commissioner.

  • Maharashtra MP, MLA couple arrested over Hanuman Chalis row shifted to split Mumbai jails

    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.