Hanuman Chalisa row: Court order on bail plea of Rana couple now on May 4

By PTI

MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s MP-MLA couple Navneet Rana and Ravi Rana, arrested over the Hanuman Chalisa row, must stay in jail a minimum of for a couple of extra days as a particular court docket right here on Monday mentioned it is going to give its ruling on their bail plea on May 4.

Earlier, particular choose R N Rokade had reserved the order for Monday. But the order could not be delivered because the court docket was busy with different issues and dictation (of the bail order of Ranas) was not accomplished.

The choose mentioned he’ll now cross the order on May 4. Independent Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana have been arrested on April 23.

The couple had moved the court docket searching for bail in an FIR registered by the Mumbai Police in opposition to them on prices of sedition and selling enmity following their public declaration of reciting the Hanuman Chalisa outdoors Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s personal residence ‘Matoshree’ in suburban Bandra.

On Saturday, each prosecution and defence accomplished their arguments on the bail utility.

Their bail plea mentioned the decision to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outdoors ‘Matoshree’ can’t be mentioned to be aimed toward selling emotions of enmity or hatred amongst completely different group and this cost underneath IPC part 153(A) can’t be sustained.

There was no intention on the a part of the candidates (Ranas) to instigate folks or unfold hatred by reciting the Hanuman Chalisa close to the CM’s personal residence, their plea mentioned.

“It is submitted that by no stretch of imagination, can the acts of the Applicants be stated to constitute the offence of sedition,” the plea mentioned.

Further, the Mumbai Police had issued a discover to the couple underneath part 149 of the CrPC (coping with stopping cognizable offences) and the candidates had complied with their route and never stepped out of their residence, it added.

Navneet Rana, the Lok Sabha MP from Amravati in japanese Maharashtra, and Ravi Rana, the MLA from Badnera, had finally dropped their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa (hymns devoted to Lord Hanuman) outdoors Thackeray’s personal residence citing the go to of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Mumbai for an occasion.