Mumbai: The Bombay High Court dismissed the petition filed by Maharashtra MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband, Ravi Rana on Monday.
The petition was seeking to quash the FIR filed for allegedly assaulting the police officer who came to arrest the politician couple.
Dismissing the plea, the court said: “Such a declaration that a person would recite some religious verses either in the personal residence of another person or even at a public place is certainly firstly a breach of personal liberty of another person…”
“…Secondly, if a declaration is made that a particular religious verse will be recited on public streets, the state is justified in carrying apprehension that such action would result in disturbance to law and order,” the judges added.
Notably, the police action came after the couple threatened to demonstrate outside Matoshree – Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s private residence in Mumbai – and recite the Hanuman Chalisa.
The court jailed the Ranas for 14 days, following which Navneet Rana was taken to Mumbai’s Byculla Jail and her husband to the Taloja Jail in Navi Mumbai.