Overview
- Community activist Shanul Syed filed a complaint at Malvani police seeking an FIR against BJP MLA Nitesh Rane for a Ram Navami speech he called provocative and hurtful to Muslims, and police have summoned him to record his statement.
- Videos and reports show Rane telling critics to go to Pakistan and saying “we don’t need this filth here,” with another clip quoting him as threatening to gouge out the eyes of anyone who looked at the saffron flag with ill intent.
- Police registered a case after stones were thrown at a Ram Navami procession in Shrirampur near a dargah, injuring participants, with local reports saying one victim lost an eye.
- Officers said they booked a cleric linked to the dargah and about a dozen unidentified persons and are reviewing CCTV footage to identify who hurled the stones and in what sequence.
- The clashes followed disputes over saffron flags near a mosque in Mumbai’s Malvani area, and the complaint cites Rane’s history of hate‑speech FIRs, including cases that the Bombay High Court earlier ordered police to register after clubbing multiple complaints.