Mumbai Apr 25 PTI Jailed Independent MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana moved the sessions court on Monday seeking bail in an FIR registered by the Mumbai Police against them on charges of sedition and promoting enmity following their public declaration of reciting the Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackerays private residence hereThe bail plea is likely to be heard on TuesdayTheir counsel Rizwan Merchant said that the couple had decided to withdraw their bail plea pending before the Bandra magistrate court that had remanded them to 14-day judicial custody on Sunday a day after their arrestMerchant said the suburban Khar police had initially booked the Ranas on the charge of promoting enmity between different groups At the time of their remand the police had informed the magistrate court that they had added the charge of sedition against the couple in the first FIRHe said the charge of sedition under 124 A of the Indian Penal Code carried a minimum sentence of seven years and a maximum punishment of life term Therefore bail for an offence of sedition was outside the jurisdiction of the magistrate court Therefore the Ranas decided to withdraw the previous application pending in the magistrate court and filed a fresh bail plea before the sessions court Merchant saidThe magistrate court had scheduled the bail hearing for April 29Navneet Rana the Lok Sabha MP from Amravati in eastern Maharashtra and Ravi Rana the MLA from Badnera had eventually dropped their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa hymns dedicated to Lord Hanuman on Saturday outside Thackerays private residence in suburban Bandra citing the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Mumbai for an event PTI AYA RSY RSY

Dehradun Feb 22 PTI Fourteen people returning from a wedding including five women and two children died and two were injured when a vehicle fell into a deep gorge on the Sukhidhang-Dandaminar road in Uttarakhands Champawat district police said on TuesdayTheir bodies were recovered from the gorge after a nearly 11-hour-long rescue operation Champawat Superintendent of Police SP Devendra Pincha told PTI from the spotFive women a four-year-old girl and a teenaged boy are among the dead he said The deceased also include a mother-daughter duo the SP saidAll of them died on the spot as the gorge was deep and the car was badly damaged in the accident on Monday night he saidThe two injured are being treated at hospitals in Tanakpur and Champawat the SP saidThe authorities were informed about the accident around 3 am on Tuesday after which rescue teams were rushed to the spot an official at the Champawat district disaster management office saidThe vehicle was returning from a wedding in Tanakpur to Danda Kaknai village when the accident occurred he saidPrime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief at the loss of lives in the accident and announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each from the Prime Ministers National Relief Fund for the next of kin of those killed and Rs 50000 for the injuredChief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami condoled the deaths in the accidentFive more lives were lost in separate accidents in Pauri and Tehri districts on Tuesday the police saidThree teachers were killed near Kotdwar when the vehicle in which they were travelling fell into a gorge while two people died when their car fell into a gorge near Gooler in Tehri district PTI ALM IJT