MUMBAI: The city police are set to submit on Wednesday the chargesheet against Navneet Kaur Rana, Independent MP from Amaravati, and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana who were arrested after they planned to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside CM Uddhav Thackeray's residence in Bandra.
They will be charged with assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of duty (Section 353 of IPC) but the sedition charge, initially mentioned in the FIR, will not be invoked because the Centre has assured the Supreme Court to keep in limbo the cases pending under IPC Section 124A. This May, the SC had put on hold all pending trials, appeals and proceedings under Section 124A till the Centre completes its exercise in re-examining its provisions.