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This is an archive article published on November 19, 2009

Chargesheet against Raj

The Mumbai police on Wednesday filed a 73-page chargesheet against MNS chief Raj Thackeray and 19 others for rioting and assault...

The Mumbai police on Wednesday filed a 73-page chargesheet against MNS chief Raj Thackeray and 19 others for rioting and assault in connection with the attack on candidates appearing for the Railway Recruitment Board examinations at Chetna College in Bandra in October last year.

The statement,quoting 32 witnesses,is with the Kherwadi Police and recounts the incident when the MNS activists took to the streets. They were agitating against what they termed as the Railways policy of issuing advertisements in North Indian newspapers to attract candidates from that region instead of giving priority to the sons of the soil.

Thackeray is accused of inciting the mob and planning the attack. The accused are facing charges of tearing off posters put up at the examination centre and beating up candidates. Incidentally,North Indian students were not the only ones harassed by the accused with some Maharashtrian students candidates also bearing the brunt of it.

My answer paper was snatched and they kept shouting slogans inside the exam hall. They even abused me when I tried to get my answer paper back, reads the statement of Rakesh Kumar,a Bihar native,who appeared in the examination for the post of Goods Guard.

While the court handed over the chargesheet to the accused,the Special Public Prosecutors Rohini Salian and Majid Memon were absent. They claimed that the government had not apprised them of the chargesheet and would have to wait to be given a copy of it.

 

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