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  Metros   Mumbai  03 Dec 2017  Court sends 8 MNS ‘vandals’ to cop custody till monday

Court sends 8 MNS ‘vandals’ to cop custody till monday

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Published : Dec 3, 2017, 2:06 am IST
Updated : Dec 3, 2017, 2:06 am IST

The party had claimed responsibility for the incident on social media.

Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam
 Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam

Mumbai: A day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers vandalised a Mumbai Regional Congress Committee office in south Mumbai, the metropolitan magistrate court on Saturday remanded eight of them in police custody till Monday.

However, the MNS’ activities did not let up, as the local party allegedly put a hoarding with derogatory remarks near Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam’s residence. Also, some unidentified persons threw ink on Congress banners outside the Zakeria hall Congress office in Bandra (east) late on Friday night.

A senior police officer of the Versova police station said the hoarding was put up five hundred feet away from Mr Nirupam’s residence in Lokhandwala and it was removed in the early hours of Saturday after the police noticed it.

“The hoarding had the MNS’ name and symbol on it. We suspect MNS party workers put it up, but we are looking into this,” the officer said.

Condemning the ink-throwing incident, the Mumbai Congress tweeted, “Strongly condemn another cowardly act yesterday late night of throwing ink at Zakaria Hall Congress office, Kherwadi, Bandra East. CM Devendra Fadnavis needs to take quick action and not be a mute spectator (sic).”

The MNS workers who are in police custody for allegedly vandalising the office of Mumbai Congress committee are Sandip Deshpande, Santosh Dhuri, Santosh Sarode, Abhay Malap, Yogesh Chhille, Vishal Kokane, Harish Solunki and Divakar Padwal.

The party had claimed responsibility for the incident on social media.

The tussle between the MNS and Mr Nirupam began after the latter came out in support of hawkers against whom the MNS had launched an agitation following a stampede at the Elphinstone Road railway station on September 29. The stampede had claimed 23 lives. A day after the stampede, MNS chief Raj Thackeray had said such stampedes would continue as long as hordes of migrants keep pouring into the city. The MNS leader said that the migrant influx was causing a collapse of infrastructure facilities in the city.

Tags: maharashtra navnirman sena (mns), sanjay nirupam