Hanuman Chalisa row: MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana face sedition costs

By IANS

MUMBAI: In an enormous setback for unbiased MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana, the Mumbai Police slapped sedition costs on them at the same time as Bandra Magistrate Court despatched them to 14 days’ judicial custody, right here on Sunday.

Special Public Prosecutor Pradip Gharat stated the court docket additionally declined pressing listening to to the Ranas’ bail utility which can now come up solely subsequent Friday (April 29).

The Ranas’ lawyer Rizwan Merchant termed the police case as ‘pretend’ and stated that sure costs had been added in a while beneath pressures. He termed all the costs in opposition to them as baseless for the reason that couple had not flouted the legal guidelines as contended.

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He additionally accused the police of submitting two totally different FIRs with enhanced costs like IPC Section 124(A), pertaining to sedition, however claimed that this was not talked about within the remand plea and the federal government attorneys failed to clarify this cost earlier than the court docket.

Soon after the court docket verdict, the couple stepped out with disappointment written on their faces, Navneet Rana is prone to be taken to the Byculla Women’s Jail and Ravi Rana could also be lodged within the Arthur Road Central Jail.

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Even as Ravi Rana claimed they’re being framed in false circumstances by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the couple’s attorneys are anticipated to file a contemporary plea for bail earlier than a daily court docket on Monday.

The Rana couple was served prohibitory notices, detained, then whisked off by Khar Police Station staff and arrested late on Saturday after two-days of high-voltage drama wherein they threatened to march to the non-public residence of the Chief Minister and chant ‘Hanuman Chalisa’, however had been prevented by a whole lot of aggressive Shiv Sainiks and the police.