A Mumbai court is likely to decide on the bail pleas of independent legislator couple MP Navneet Rana and MLA Ravi Rana on Monday, May 2.
The court has reserved the order in the matter for May 2.
They were arrested on charges of sedition among others in the Hanuman Chalisa row.
The couple had moved court seeking bail in an FIR registered by Mumbai police under provisions related to sedition and promoting enmity following their plan to recite Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's private residence here.
On Saturday, both prosecution and defence completed their arguments, after which Special Judge RN Rokade reserved the order for Monday.
The bail plea of the legislator couple contended that a call to recite Hanuman Chalisa outside 'Matoshree', the CM's private residence in Bandra East, cannot be said to be calculated to promote feelings of enmity or hatred.
It also said the charge under section 153(A) cannot be sustained, adding that there was no intention on the part of the applicants to instigate or create hatred by reciting Hanuman Chalisa near the CM's private home.
Their bail plea also claimed that by no stretch of imagination can the acts of the applicants be stated to constitute the offence of sedition.
(with agency inputs)
