Hanuman Chalisa row: MP Navneet Rana petitions Bombay HC to quash FIR against her.
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- 25 Apr 2022
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MP Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana have moved the Bombay High Court seeking the quashing of the FIR registered against them over their threats to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's private residence.
The matter has been notified for hearing before Justice Varale's bench at 2.30pm on Monday.
On Sunday, a Mumbai court remanded the Ranas in 14-day judicial custody, a day after they were arrested by the Mumbai Police on the charge of "creating enmity between different groups", rejecting the police's demand for their custody.
Subsequently, Navneet Rana, the MP from Amravati in Maharashtra, was late Sunday night taken to the Byculla women's jail. Her husband Ravi Rana, the MLA from Badnera in Amravati, was shifted to the Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai after completion of the legal formalities.
A case was registered against the MP-MLA couple under Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc, and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code, and sections 37(1) and 135 of the Bombay Police Act.
Later, the police also added IPC Section 124-A (sedition) in the case against them as they had "challenged the government machinery and made remarks against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray".
The court is scheduled to hear their bail application on April 29.
Earlier this month, MLA Ravi Rana had demanded that Uddhav Thackeray, who heads the Shiv Sena, recite the Hanuman Chalisa at his residence on Hanuman Jayanti, and announced that if the CM did not do so, he would go to 'Matoshree' and recite it. Read More...
