Day after getting bail, MP Navneet Rana walks out of Mumbai jail

By PTI

MUMBAI: Independent MP Navneet Rana walked out of a jail in Mumbai on Thursday, a day after a court docket right here granted bail to her and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana, greater than per week after they had been arrested in an alleged case of sedition.

After being granted bail on Wednesday, the mandatory paperwork had not well timed reached the prisons the place they had been lodged.

On Thursday, Navneet Rana, the Lok Sabha memer from Amravati in Maharashtra, got here out of the Byculla girls’s jail in south Mumbai round 2 pm, an official mentioned. She will likely be admitted to a personal hospital in suburban Bandra for the remedy of an ailment, he mentioned. Her husband is but to launched from the Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.

Mumbai | Amravati MP Navneet Rana admitted to Lilavati Hospital after being launched from Byculla Jail immediately.

BJP chief Kirit Somaiya visited the hospital to satisfy her.

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The Rana couple was arrested on April 23 by the Khar police right here underneath sections 124 (A) (sedition) and 153 (A) (selling enmity between completely different teams) of the Indian Penal Code.

The couple had introduced that they’d recite the Hanuman Chalisa outdoors Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s personal residence ‘Matoshree’ right here, which angered employees of the Shiv Sena, Thackeray’s celebration, resulting in stress.

The couple later dropped the plan, citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to town the following day.

But the police, nonetheless, booked them for sedition and ‘selling enmity between completely different teams’, amongst different offenses.

The particular court docket for listening to circumstances in opposition to MPs and MLAs laid down a number of circumstances whereas granting them bail on Wednesday.