{"id":317558,"date":"2022-05-03T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/?p=317527"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T07:06:09","slug":"raj-thackeray-hanuman-chalisa-loudspeaker-mumbai-police-seize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/raj-thackeray-hanuman-chalisa-loudspeaker-mumbai-police-seize\/","title":{"rendered":"Day after Raj Thackeray&#8217;s Hanuman Chalisa remark, Mumbai Police seize loudspeakers from MNS office, detain party leader Mahendra Bhanushali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amid tensions over the Raj Thackeray&#8217;s recent threat to recite Hanuman Chalisa outside mosques after May 4 if loudspeakers were not removed by that date, officers from the Mumbai Police Department seized loudspeakers from the MNS office. And because of this, the MNS&#8217; Chandivali unit chief Mahendra Bhanushali and others were apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This move came after Aurangabad Police filed an FIR against Raj Thackeray after he objected to the playing of Azaan on loudspeakers after May 3 and ordered&nbsp;Hindus to&nbsp;play Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeakers from May 4. The MNS chief has been booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 116, 117, 153, and Section 135 of the Maharashtra Police Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Maharashtra: Mumbai Police seize loudspeakers from MNS office and detain party&#39;s Chandivali unit chief Mahendra Bhanushali and others. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/irR9Y9nQJ6\">pic.twitter.com\/irR9Y9nQJ6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1521445966213091328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Section 116 pertains to abetment of an offense; Section 117 of IPC refers to abetting the commission of an offense by the public or by more than ten persons&#8217;; Section 153 pertains to &#8216;wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause a riot and Section 135 of the Maharashtra Police Act, authorizes arrest and punishment for violations of Section 37 (prohibitory order issued by Police authority).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/rajasthan-communal-violence-karauli-alwar-jodhpur\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/rajasthan-communal-violence-karauli-alwar-jodhpur\/\">Karauli, Alwar and now Jodhpur: Rajasthan communal violence points to elections next year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When reporters asked Bhanushali about his next move as he was being taken away, he was overheard responding that any instruction from the party chief would be obeyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking in a rally on May 1, the MNS chief said loudspeakers should be removed from every religious place even if they are in temples but only after the loudspeakers from the mosques get removed. Requesting Hindus, he said that if these (Muslims) people don&#8217;t listen by May 3, then from 4 may onwards I should be able to hear the sound of Hanuman Chalisa. Get the permission if you want, take appropriate permission, they will have to give permission. After that permission, you will do everything on high volume and this socially important question pending for years should be addressed and you may all contribute to this, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours ago, Maharashtra director general of police Rajnish Seth said the Aurangabad police commissioner will take proper legal measures against Thackeray over his remarks against loudspeakers atop mosques. Home minister Dilip Walse Patil, DGP Seth, and senior police officers convened a meeting to examine the peace and order situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/hou-yanqi-rahul-gandhi\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/hou-yanqi-rahul-gandhi\/\">Who is Hou Yanqi who was seen partying with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/pune-municipal-corporations-bjp-corporator-samrat-abhay-thorat-gets-permission-for-getting-more-e-charging-stations\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/pune-municipal-corporations-bjp-corporator-samrat-abhay-thorat-gets-permission-for-getting-more-e-charging-stations\/\">Pune Municipal Corporation\u2019s BJP corporator Samrat Abhay Thorat gets permission for getting more e-charging stations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This move came after Aurangabad Police filed an FIR against Raj Thackeray after he objected to the playing of Azaan on loudspeakers after May 3 and ordered\u00a0Hindus to\u00a0play Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeakers from May 4. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":317543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Day after Raj Thackeray's Hanuman Chalisa remark, Mumbai Police seize loudspeakers from MNS office, detain party leader Mahendra Bhanushali\n\n#HanumanChalisa #RajThackeray #Loudspeaker #MahendraBhanushali","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[130115,130116,130117,130118,128488],"yst_prominent_words":[20926,61216,12079,32488,23559,45530,5970,4000,12184],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317558"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=317558"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=317558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->