The Lok Sabha Secretariat has requested a 'Factual Note' from Maharashtra over the arrest of MP Navneet Rana

In connection with the arrest of Amravati MP Navneet Rana, the Lok Sabha Secretariat on Monday requested a factual report from the Maharashtra government within 24 hours. "A copy of the email/complaint dated April 25, 2022, received from Navneet Ravi Rana, MP alleging illegal arrest and subsequent inhuman treatment meted out to her in Khar Police Station, Mumbai," states the letter from the Lok Sabha secretariat to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

 

"The Ministry of Home Affairs is urged to acquire a 'Factual Note' on the case from the Government of Maharashtra and provide it to this Secretariat within 24 hours for presentation to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha," the letter continued. Navneet Rana, an Amravati MP, wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday, clarifying that she was chanting the "Hanuman Chalisa" outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's residence to "spark the flame of Hindutva" in Shiv Sena, not to "cause any religious conflicts."

 

On Sunday, the MP-MLA couple was apprehended in Mumbai. A Metropolitan Magistrate court in Bandra then placed them in judicial prison for 14 days. MLA Ravi Rana is currently imprisoned at Taloja Jail, while MP Naveneet Rana is imprisoned in Byculla Jail. On Saturday, a row erupted after MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana announced that they planned to chant Hanuman Chalisa outside 'Matoshree' (Maharashtra Chief Minister's Mumbai residence), prompting a large crowd to gather outside the political couple's home, waving flags in an attempt to prevent them from reaching the Chief Minister's residence.

 

The Ranas, however, abandoned their plan to chant Hanuman Chalisa in the face of Shiv Sainik demonstrations, which resulted in their detention on charges of inciting hatred between different communities. On Monday, the Ranas went to the Bombay High Court to ask for the FIR in the Matoshree-Hanuman Chalisa dispute to be dismissed. The High Court, on the other hand, dismissed the Rana couple's motion to quash the FIR filed against them for allegedly assaulting the police officer who came to arrest them.

 

 

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