Prosecution challenges interim relief granted to Raj Thackeray

MUMBAI: The prosecution on Monday approached the Bombay High Court challenging the interim relief granted to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray by the Kalyan sessions court last month. The prosecution has challenged the interim relief granted to Raj in his anticipatory bail application, claiming it to be ���illegal, unjust against facts, circumstances and provisions of law.���

���After Raj was granted bail by the Kalyan sessions court, his custody was transferred to the Kalyan railway police and thus, in accordance with the law, he should have been produced before the Kalyan railway court,��� special public prosecutor Rohini Salian said. She further said that once Raj���s custody had been transferred, the Kalyan sessions court cannot grant him relief in that matter. ���The court acted without jurisdiction in passing the second order and the anticipatory bail application filed by Raj was infructous,��� the petition filed by the prosecution said.

The petition will come up for hearing on Tuesday before a single bench of the high court. Raj was produced before the Kalyan sessions court on October 22 in connection with attack on North Indians by MNS activists, who had arrived at a suburban college for appearing in a railway recruitment board examination.