According to a latest update, Amravati MP Navneet Rana has written a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla mentioning about the harsh behaviour taken place during the judicial custody at Khar police station for being from a scheduled caste.
Elaborating further, Rana, in the letter, stated: “I emphatically state that basic human rights such as drinking water was denied to me on the ground that I belong to Scheduled Caste (Neechi Zaat). It's my honest and bona fide belief that Shiv Sena under Uddhav Thackeray completely strayed from its avowed Hindutva principles for obvious reasons since it wanted to betray public mandate and form post-poll alliance with INC-NCP.”
"I, with the sincere hope to rekindle the flame of Hindutva in Shiv Sena, had declared that I shall go to the residence of the Chief Minister and chant the “Hanuman Chalisa” outside his residence. This was not meant to incite any religious tensions," she added.
“To my shock and disbelief, the police staff present told me that I belong to Scheduled Caste and hence they will not give me water in the same glass. Thus, I was directly abused on the basis of my caste and it is only for this reason that no drinking water was provided,” Rana expressed.
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“Further, when I wanted to use the bathroom at the night, police staff paid no heed to my demands. I was again abused in the filthiest language...I was told that we don’t let people from Neechi Zaat Scheduled Castes use our bathrooms,” Rana shared.
Clarifying on the act of reciting Hanuman Chalisa outside CM Thackeray’s house, she said that the couple had invited him for the chanting of the prayer. “I reiterate that my actions were not against the Chief Minister. However, looking to the fact that my actions may prove detrimental to law and order situation in Mumbai, I had publicly withdrawn from the said exercise and declared that I shall not be going to CM residence. I was confined with my husband Ravi Rana, an MLA, in my house,” she concluded.
Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana were taken to the Khar Police Station on Saturday, April 23, 2022. They were remanded 14-day judicial custody on Sunday, April 24, by a Mumbai court.
However, a day later, they have moved the Bombay High Court seeking the quashing of the FIR registered against them over their threats to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's private residence. The matter has been notified for hearing before Justice Varale's bench at 2.30 pm on Monday, April 25.
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