A sessions court in Mumbai on Tuesday asked the Mumbai Police to file a reply on April 29 on the bail plea of jailed Independent MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband MLA Ravi Rana. The couple on Monday sought bail in an FIR registered by the Mumbai Police against them on charges of sedition and promoting enmity after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray called upon them to recite Hanuman Chalisa outside the suburban ‘Matoshree’. had turned. Bandra.
When the matter came up for hearing in the court on Tuesday, the police said they wanted to respond to the bail plea with an affidavit. The court accepted this and posted the matter for further hearing on April 29. The Ranas were arrested by the Mumbai Police on Saturday.
Ranas’s lawyer Rizwan Merchant said on Monday that the couple decided to withdraw their bail plea pending before the Bandra magistrate court, which sent them to 14-day judicial custody on Sunday. Merchant had said that the suburban Khar police had initially registered a case against Rana under section 153 (A) of the Indian Penal Code for promoting enmity between different groups. At the time of remand, the police informed the magistrate court that they have added a charge of sedition under Section 124A of the IPC against the couple in the first FIR.
His bail plea states that the call to recite Hanuman Chalisa outside ‘Matoshree’ was not a well-planned move to promote feelings of enmity or hatred and the charge under section 153(a) cannot be maintained Is. The couple, in their petition, said that there was no intention on the part of the applicants to provoke or create hatred by offering Hanuman Chalisa to ‘Matoshree’. It is submitted that the acts of the applicants cannot be termed as an offense of sedition by any imagination, the petition said.
Further, the Mumbai Police had issued a notice under Section 149 of CrPC and the applicant (Navneet Rana) had followed the instructions of the police and did not come out of his residence. Navneet Rana, Lok Sabha MP from Amravati in eastern Maharashtra and MLA from Badnera in Amravati Ravi Rana had dropped their plans to recite Hanuman Chalisa (hymn dedicated to Lord Hanuman) outside Thackeray’s house on Saturday, citing travel . Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Mumbai on Sunday for an event.
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