Mumbai Aug 25 PTI Unidentified persons hurled soda water bottles at Shiv Sena MP Vinayak Rauts bungalow at Malvan in Maharashtras Sindhudurg district police said on Wednesday The incident took place around 8 pm on Tuesday in the coastal Rautwadi area of Talgaon in Malvan located around 500 km from the state capital Mumbai they said Notably Raut on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding sacking of Union minister Narayan Rane over his remarks against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray Rane had sparked off a row over his remarks during his Jan Ashirwad Yatra on Monday about slapping Chief Minister Thackeray for what he claimed as the latters ignorance of the year of Indias independence According to a police official four unidentified persons came and hurled soda water bottles at Rauts bungalow and then fled from the spot Following a complaint by the bungalows care-taker the Malvan police registered an FIR against unidentified persons under Indian Penal Code Sections 336 act endangering life or personal safety of others 34 acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention 37 1 intentionally co-operating in the commission of offence and 135 abetment of desertion he said adding that search was on for the culprits After the incident security around the house was heightened the official said On Tuesday Shiv Sena and BJP supporters clashed with each other in various districts of Maharashtra in the wake of Ranes remarks against the CM Last week before Rane started his Jan Ashirwad Yatra Raut said the BJP leader had no moral right to visit the memorial of late Bal Thackeray as Ranes actions of breaking the Shiv Sena caused a lot of pain to the party founder However Rane had later visited the memorial located in Mumbais Shivaji Park area PTI DC GK GK

Mumbai Aug 24 PTI Union minister Narayan Rane was on Tuesday night produced before a court at Mahad in Raigad district some 160 km from Mumbai after his arrest over controversial remarks against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray Rane was produced before magistrate Shaikhbabaso Patil by the Mahad police His lawyer Aniket Nikam said they would be opposing the arrest and seeking bail Nikam said the police had failed to follow due process of law before arresting Rane a BJP leaderA notice has to be issued under section 41A of the CrPC Code of Criminal Procedure before arresting someone in cases where custodial interrogation is not required he said Rane faces four FIRs across Maharashtra over his remark that he would have slapped Thackeray over the latters alleged ignorance of the year of Indias independence He was arrested on Tuesday afternoon by the Ratnagiri police and taken to Mahad in Raigad district The FIR at Mahad was registered under IPC sections 189 threat of injury to public servant 504 intentional insult to provoke breach of public peace and 505 statements conducive to public mischief PTI AVI DC SP KRK KRK