New Delhi: Amravati MP Navneet Rana arrested with her MLA husband Ravi Rana over their threats to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s private residence has said that she did not face ill-treatment while in custody at the Khar Police Station lock-up.
Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana had told Bandra Court on Sunday that they had no complaints against the police in view of the "ill-treatment in custody" allegations levelled by the MP, ANI reported the Mumbai Police as saying.
"Complaint of my client Navneet Kaur of ill-treatment while in custody is in relation to her detention at the lock-up of Santa Cruz PS and not Khar PS,” the couple’s lawyer Rizwan Merchant said.
“Officers did offer her tea at Khar PS,” he added on Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey’s video, the news agency reported.
The Mumbai police chief has rubbished the allegations of ill-treatment by the MP-MLA couple while in custody and put up a video on Twitter of the duo having tea and water in Khar Police Station.
“Do we say anything more,” he tweeted.
The move came after the Union Home Ministry sought a factual report from the Maharashtra government following the Lok Sabha Privilege and Ethics Committee’s instructions.
A Mumbai court has sent MP Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana to judicial remand till May 6.
The arrest was made based on an FIR under Section 353 of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with assault or use of criminal force against a public servant in the execution of his duty.
The MP-MLA couple had threatened to chant Hanuman Chalisa outside the Chief Minister’s residence ‘Matoshree’.
However, they had called off the protest on Saturday citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mumbai visit.