FIR Against Shiv Sena UBT Leader Sanjay Raut For Calling Maharashtra Govt ‘Illegal’

Nashik: A case has been registered towards Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Sanjay Raut in Maharashtra’s Nashik for allegedly creating discord between the police and the general public by his assertion, stated a police official. “A case has been registered in Mumbai Naka Police Station u/s 505(1)(b) of IPC against Uddhav faction leader and MP Sanjay Raut for allegedly creating discord between the police and the public by his statement,” Nashik City Police stated. 

IPC Section 505 (1) (b) offers with the ‘intent to trigger, or which is prone to trigger, concern or alarm to the general public, or to any part of the general public whereby any particular person could also be induced to commit an offence towards the State or towards the general public tranquillity’.

Raut has allegedly appealed to the state officers and police personnel to not observe orders of the “illegal” Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis authorities. The Shiv Sena UBT Rajya Sabha MP made these remarks a day after the Supreme Court pronounced its verdict on the Shiv Sena-centric political imbroglio in Maharashtra.

Officials stated that Police have taken suo moto cognizance of Raut’s remarks and an FIR was registered at Nashik’s Mumbai Naka police station. “Sanjay Raut in a statement against the state government said that the present government is illegal and their orders should not be followed,” they stated.

“Further investigation is underway,” they added.