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Another warrant against Raj Thackeray

Jamshedpur: A court here on Friday issued a non-bailable warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for failing to appear before it in a case regarding his alleged derogatory remarks on ‘chat festival’.

Hearing a petition, filed by a local lawyer Hameed Raza Khan, the court of First Class Judicial Magistrate A K Tiwari issued the non-bailable warrant against Mr. Thackeray for failing to appear in the court on Friday.

Earlier, the court had issued a bailable warrant in connection with the case on June 19.

Mr. Khan had filed the petition in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate P K Moitra against MNS chief in February in which he had alleged that Mr. Thackeray had made the remarks while addressing a public meeting in Mumbai on January 31.

Mr. Thackeray had described ‘chat festival’, observed by Biharis in Mumbai, as farce, which led to wide-spread agitation in the country.

The complainant had produced newspaper clippings with regard to Thackeray’s statement.

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