Mumbai Police has registered a case against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Amit Thackeray and 23 others over a protest in the Shivaji Park area against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
The police have invoked several provisions of the law, including Section 189(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with unlawful assembly.
The protest took place on Sunday, October 11, in support of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) agitation against Gyanesh Kumar. Tensions increased after Aaditya Thackeray and his cousin Amit Thackeray arrived with hundreds of supporters, leading to sit-ins and sloganeering amid a heavy police deployment.
Aaditya Thackeray staged a sit-in on the road outside Shivaji Park and allegedly stopped a police van carrying detained protesters, according to reports.
Thackeray Cousins Demand Release of Detained Protesters
Several people were detained during the protest, including social activist Anjali Damania, who had joined the demonstration earlier in the day. In the evening, the Thackeray cousins arrived near Shivaji Park along with supporters and criticised the BJP-led governments at the Centre and in Maharashtra, describing them as “cowardly” and “dictatorial”.
The leaders and workers of Shiv Sena (UBT) and the MNS gathered outside Shivaji Park police station, where most of the detained protesters had been taken. They demanded the immediate release of those detained.
Aaditya Thackeray, who was accompanied by his brother Tejas Thackeray, alleged that police personnel had attacked and manhandled party workers, including women. He also claimed that the saree of a woman party worker was torn during the commotion.
