Mumbai: Mumbai Police said to Special Court that MP Navneet Rana and MLA Ravi Rana may look innocent from face of the plan of reciting Hanuman Chalisa outside Matoshree, but it was in fact a “big plot” to challenge the state government.
The police alleged that The opposition BJP and political opponents of Shiv Sena were trying to create an atmosphere to project CM Uddhav Thackeray as anti-Hindu and not sponsoring the cause of Hinduism. In the present regime it was difficult for Hindus to practise their religion freely and thus the feeling of hate would increase against the Muslim religion causing a rift.
The police made these claims in an affidavit filed through special public prosecutor Pradip Gharat. It opposes the bail pleas of the Rana couple, who were arrested on April 23 on sedition and other charges.
The bail pleas will be heard on Saturday by special judge RN Rokade.
As of now Ranas are in judicial custody. The police officials claim that if the couple is released on bail, they are influential persons and would tamper with the evidence or influence witnesses.
Citing that the accused are resident of Amravati and not Mumbai, if granted bail they may not be available for the probe and trial, police said.
The police in the affidavit claimed that the administrative policies are opposed by the opposition BJP. The opposition party is criticising the ruling Shiv Sena for its stand on Hindutva.
“The opposite parties and political opponents of Shiv Sena have clashes on the point of religion. Some political parties and independent political leaders are raising issues and alleging that the chief minister of Maharashtra is against Hindutva and also alleging that the government is sponsoring the cause of other religions,” the police said.
In the affidavit police has rubbished the claim of only wanted to chant Hanuman Chalisa, which is an act of prayer, and hence it cannot be construed as an offence, made by Ranas.
“However innocent these pleadings may seem like, the respondent (police) says that these submissions are the most hypocrite as the plan to read Hanuman Chalisa at ‘Matoshree’, the private residence of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, is a big plot to create a challenge to the law and order situation,” the affidavit said.
They added that intentions were to disturb the law and order situation and then seek for dissolution of the present government by the Governor of Maharashtra.
“The investigation has revealed that the accused persons who are strong political opponents of the present government have now taken a very smart move to make use of the sacred ‘stotra’ (religious book),” the police said.
“By creating a law and order situation of this nature, the accused persons are trying to show that the present state government is not sponsoring the cause of Hinduism and the chief minister is against Hindus,” it added.
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