Mumbai:Mumbai Police on Monday arrested four Shiv Sena party members including former city Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar, for allegedly vandalizing Maharashtra BJP leader Kirit Somaiya's car over the weekend, the police informed. Those arrested have been identified as former Shiv Sena corporator Haji Haleem Khan and party activists Dinesh Kunal and Shekhar Wangankar, who were reportedly charged with rioting as they hurled stones at Somaiya's car, the police official said.
The BJP leader's car was allegedly attacked in front of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's residence in Mumbai on Saturday amid the Hanuman Chalisa row that flared up after the Amravati based MLA Ravi Rana and wife MP Navneet Rana gave a call to recite it there. "We four, including former corporator Haleem and Kunal, were arrested but we do not know under which IPC sections and whether they are bailable or non-bailable. We are in the (Khar) police station," the former Mayor said after an FIR was registered at the Bandra police station against the four in the matter.