Hanuman Chalisa Row: Rana Couple Refuses to Seek Bail After Arrest for ‘Promoting Enmity’

After a complete day of excessive drama on Saturday, BJP MP Navneet Rana from Maharashtra and her husband, MLA Ravi Rana, had been arrested and booked for allegedly selling enmity amongst totally different teams. However, quickly after, the Rana couple refused to hunt bail and instructed their legal professionals that they need to not accomplish that as properly on their behalf.

“We’ll keep inside as a mark of protest in opposition to the false case and wrongful arrest,” the couple stated after lodging a counter-complaint in opposition to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray.

Sources near the Amravati MP and her husband stated their medical process was over and they are going to be produced earlier than a Bandra vacation court docket on Sunday.

The police took them into custody hours after the couple cancelled their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa exterior Thackeray’s non-public residence ‘Matoshree’ in Mumbai.

Shiv Sainiks had staged a large protest exterior the couple’s Khar residence, demanding an apology from them.

Listed below are all of the updates from the day-long back-and-forth between the Ranas and the ruling Shiv Sena:

1. Rana couple refuses to hunt bail
   Amravati MP Navneet Kaur Rana and her husband, MLA Ravi Rana, refused to hunt bail and requested their legal professionals to not accomplish that on their behalf. The couple stated, “We’ll keep inside as a mark of protest in opposition to the false case and wrongful arrest.” Sources near the couple stated the 2 had undergone their medical process and had been able to be produced earlier than the court docket on Sunday. Police will current Navneet and Ravi Rana earlier than the Bandra vacation court docket. All movies and press convention footage of the couple are being collected for evaluation by the Mumbai Police.
2. Ranas arrested, booked for “selling enmity”
   Mumbai Police arrested the Ranas for allegedly “creating enmity between totally different teams” after escorting them out of their home in suburban Khar amid excessive drama. The couple was booked beneath IPC part 153A (selling enmity between totally different teams on grounds of faith, race, place of origin, residence, language, and many others, and doing acts prejudicial to upkeep of concord), and part 135 of the Mumbai Police Act (violation of prohibitory orders of police).
3. Navneet and Ravi Rana lodge criticism in opposition to CM Uddhav Thackeray
   As soon as they had been delivered to Khar police station, the couple submitted a criticism in opposition to CM Uddhav Thackeray, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and Sena chief and state transport minister Anil Parab, accusing them of instigating individuals to “kill” the couple. However no case had been registered but, police stated.
4. Sena Supporters Booked for attempting to storm into Ranas’ residence
   An FIR was registered in opposition to Shiv Sena supporters who allegedly tried getting into the constructing in Khar the place Navneet and Ravi Rana had been staying. The supporters, who had been tenting exterior the house, broke by way of barricades round however police stopped them. Taking a critical view of the incident, Sena supporters had been additionally booked at Khar police station beneath related sections of the IPC.
5. Can’t contact me with out a warrant, Navneet Rana tells police
   A heated argument ensued between the Ranas and police on the couple’s Khar residence. In a Fb Reside posted on her official deal with on the social networking website, Navneet Rana and the cops will be seen having a heated dialog. Within the video, the MP is saying she “can’t be touched with out a warrant” whereas her husband seems to be on. In a single occasion, she can be heard asking the police to “decrease their tone as she is an MP”.
6. Ranas return on Hanuman Chalisa “dare”
   The Ranas cancelled their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa exterior Matoshree amid stiff resistance by the ruling Shiv Sena. They stated they didn’t wish to disturb the regulation and order scenario in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Mumbai for an occasion. The Ranas introduced the choice whereas talking to the media within the afternoon at their residence, exterior which a lot of Shiv Sena staff had been tenting since morning, taking an aggressive stand that if the politician couple tries to go forward with their plan, they might be taught a lesson. Navneet Rana stated their goal had been fulfilled as “bhakts” chanted the Hanuman Chalisa exterior ‘Matoshree’. “Our goal was fulfilled, although Ravi Rana and I couldn’t attain ‘Matoshree’ (CM Uddhav Thackeray’s residence), Hanuman Chalisa purported to be chanted by us was chanted by bhakts exterior the CM’s residence,” she added.

(With PTI inputs)

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