Raj Thackeray surrenders in Mumbai court, arrested

NEW DELHI: MNS chief Raj Thackeray was arrested after he surrendered in a Mumbai court, in the wake of a non-bailable warrant issued against him by a Jamshedpur court.

On Friday, Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray's plea to transfer a complaint case from a Jamshedpur court to Mumbai could not come up for hearing in the Jharkhand High Court.

The hearing on Thackeray's petition was listed in the court of Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra, but the court did not sit in the afternoon when the matter was suppose to come up.

Thackeray filed the petition last month after a complaint case was filed against him in a Jameshdpur court in June in which the complainant charged him with insulting religious beliefs.

Jamshedpur judicial magistrate A K Tiwari has already issued an arrest warrant after Thackeray failed to appear before it, moving him to approach the High Court for transfer of the case. The High Court had on October 25 adjourned the hearing.

Thackeray is facing as many as seven complaint cases against him in Jamshedpur (4), Jamtara, Garwah and Dhanbad in Jharkhand for his anti-north Indian accusations and attacks on them by MNS activists.