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

After an entire 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 completely different teams. But, quickly after, the Rana couple refused to search bail and informed their legal professionals that they need to not accomplish that as effectively on their behalf.

“We will stay inside as a mark of protest against the false case and wrongful arrest,” the couple mentioned after lodging a counter-complaint in opposition to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray.

Sources shut to the Amravati MP and her husband mentioned their medical process was over and they are going to be produced earlier than a Bandra vacation courtroom on Sunday.

The police took them into custody hours after the couple cancelled their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outdoors Thackeray’s non-public residence ‘Matoshree’ in Mumbai. Shiv Sainiks had staged a large protest outdoors the couple’s Khar residence, demanding an apology from them.

Here 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 search bail
   Amravati MP Navneet Kaur Rana and her husband, MLA Ravi Rana, refused to search bail and requested their legal professionals to not accomplish that on their behalf. The couple mentioned, “We will stay inside as a mark of protest against the false case and wrongful arrest.” Sources shut to the couple mentioned the 2 had undergone their medical process and had been prepared to be produced earlier than the courtroom on Sunday. Police will current Navneet and Ravi Rana earlier than the Bandra vacation courtroom. All movies and press convention footage of the couple are being collected for evaluation by the Mumbai Police.
2. Ranas arrested, booked for “promoting enmity”
   Mumbai Police arrested the Ranas for allegedly “creating enmity between different groups” after escorting them out of their home in suburban Khar amid excessive drama. The couple was booked below IPC part 153A (selling enmity between completely different teams on grounds of faith, race, native land, residence, language, and so on, 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
   Once they had been introduced 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. But no case had been registered but, police mentioned.
4. Sena Supporters Booked for making an attempt to storm into Ranas’ residence
   An FIR was registered in opposition to Shiv Sena supporters who allegedly tried coming into the constructing in Khar the place Navneet and Ravi Rana had been staying. The supporters, who had been tenting outdoors the condo, broke by means of barricades round however police stopped them. Taking a severe view of the incident, Sena supporters had been additionally booked at Khar police station below 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 Facebook Live posted on her official deal with on the social networking website, Navneet Rana and the cops will be seen having a heated dialog. In the video, the MP is saying she “cannot be touched without a warrant” whereas her husband seems to be on. In one occasion, she can be heard asking the police to “lower their tone as she is an MP”.
6. Ranas return on Hanuman Chalisa “dare”
   The Ranas cancelled their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outdoors Matoshree amid stiff resistance by the ruling Shiv Sena. They mentioned they didn’t need to disturb the regulation and order state of affairs 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, outdoors which a lot of Shiv Sena employees had been tenting since morning, taking an aggressive stand that if the politician couple tries to go forward with their plan, they’d be taught a lesson. Navneet Rana mentioned their intention had been fulfilled as “bhakts” chanted the Hanuman Chalisa outdoors ‘Matoshree’. “Our aim was fulfilled, though Ravi Rana and I couldn’t reach ‘Matoshree’ (CM Uddhav Thackeray’s residence), Hanuman Chalisa supposed to be chanted by us was chanted by bhakts outside the CM’s residence,” she added.
7. Sena activists break by means of barricades to enter Ranas’ dwelling
   Shiv Sena employees broke by means of the barricades and tried coming into the premises of the Khar residence of Navneet and Ravi Rana. But the state of affairs was introduced below management, police mentioned, including that the politician couple was requested not to step out of their dwelling because the state of affairs may escalate. “Around 8.45 am, angry Shiv Sena supporters broke through the barricades, placed at a distance of around 50 m from the building, where the Ranas own a flat in Khar. They tried to enter the apartment premises. The party workers raised slogans in support of CM Thackeray and dared the couple to step out of the residence,” police mentioned. Mumbai Police had served a discover to the couple, asking them not to disturb the regulation and order state of affairs within the metropolis after they informed reporters that they’ll recite the Hanuman Chalisa outdoors Thackeray’s household residence if he didn’t agree to learn it.
8. High safety outdoors Matoshree and Varsha
   Police had been deployed in giant numbers outdoors Matoshree, the non-public residence of Thackeray in suburban Bandra, after Navneet and Ravi Rana introduced their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa there. Sena employees had begun to camp outdoors the home since morning because the couple mentioned they had been agency on their plan to recite the Chalisa outdoors the Thackeray residence.
9. 80-year-old girl steals the present
   An octogenarian girl turned the unlikely star of the Shiv Sena’s protest in opposition to Navneet and Ravi Rana outdoors Matoshree. She additionally caught Thackeray’s consideration, who invited her inside for a tete-a-tete. Chandrabhaga Ganpat Shinde was amongst lots of of Sena supporters tenting outdoors to confront the Ranas. Shinde, sporting a saffron saree, was seen shouting slogans. She attracted the eye of others, and shortly a brand new slogan was coined: ‘Ravi Rana kayar hain, aajji amchi fire hain (Ravi Rana is a coward and our grandma (Aajji) is fire)’. Shinde responded by saying jhukenga nahin, evoking a preferred line from the movie Pushpa.

(With PTI inputs)

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