Up to date on: Aug 04, 2025 07:11 am IST
After Raj Thackeray’s remarks, a video confirmed males with sticks storming a bar, smashing bottles, damaging furnishings, and vandalising the place.
MUMBAI: Fifteen Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) staff have been booked for vandalising a dance bar in Panvel early Sunday morning, simply hours after social gathering chief Raj Thackeray launched a scathing assault on unlawful bars within the Raigad district throughout a public speech.
Thackeray, who was in Panvel on Saturday to attend the Peasants and Employees Occasion basis day occasion, questioned why unlawful dance bars continued to function in Raigad — the historic capital of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. He alleged that though formally shut down, a number of such institutions remained operational, typically run by “outsiders”. He accused the state administration of turning a blind eye to their actions.
Quickly after his remarks, a video surfaced on-line exhibiting a gaggle of males armed with sticks storming right into a bar and ransacking the premises. They smashed liquor bottles, broke furnishings, and vandalised the inside, police officers confirmed. The MNS staff have been additionally seen pelting stones on the bar from exterior and shouting slogans. Movies of the acts have been shot and circulated by social gathering staff themselves.
MNS chief Sandip Deshpande later defended the actions, calling it a “symbolic protest”. “The federal government should act towards these unlawful bars. Are they operating a bar or defending it? In the event that they don’t shut them down, folks will take motion,” he stated.
Police have booked MNS functionary Yogesh Chile and 15 others underneath related sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).Makes an attempt to succeed in deputy commissioner of police Prashant Mohite (Zone 3, Navi Mumbai) went unanswered.
The MNS, led by Thackeray, has beforehand confronted criticism over its aggressive ways and for focusing on non-Marathi-speaking communities in Maharashtra.
