Mumbai, Jan 27, : Sanjay Raut, a Shiv Sena MP and Saamna executive editor was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly leading an attack on a five-star hotel in Mumbai last week.

He was later granted bail by a local court.

Raut was booked under IPC sections related to rioting, a senior police official at the Sahar police station said.

Raut was arrested on Tuesday morning for leading an attack on Hotel Intercontinental in suburban Andheri by Shiv Sena-led Bhartiya Kamgar Sena (BKS) on January 21.

Nasik, Jan 27 (ANI): Activists of Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) attacked a school at Nasik in Maharashtra where a cultural programme of the north Indians was in progress on Monday.

The activists attacked the parents of school children and beat up participants in the programme, which was taking place as part of the country''s Republic Day celebrations.

Scores of activists wielding MNS flags and raising slogans vandalized property at the school.

The MNS activists said they were protesting against the Bhojpuri film songs being played at the function.

Mumbai, Jan.

The Supreme Court will hear Maharashtra government’s appeal to stop releasing Kamal Khan’s controversial movie ‘Deshdrohi’ on Jan 23, in view of intelligence inputs that it may lead to law and order problem in the state.

The film ‘Deshdrohi’ is set to be released on Friday (Jan 23).

Mumbai, Jan 22, : A special MCOCA court on Thursday gave its nod to Mumbai Police' Anti-terrorist Squad to invoke Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against the 11 arrested accused in the Malegaon blast case by stating that there was prima facie evidence against them of having aided and conspired to commit criminal activities.

The special MCOCA court took cognizance of the 4000-page chargesheet filed in the case observing that invoking MCOCA was valid in the case.

The eleven accused includes Lt. Col Prasad Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.

Pune, Jan. 21 : Agitated over an attack on Marathi speaking people in Karnataka, Shiv Sena activists stopped the screening of a Kannada film here on Wednesday.

They also damaged the property of the Ratan Chitra Mandir, which was screening the film.

Tension first surfaced on January 16, during the Karnataka Assembly session in Belgaum, which borders Maharashtra. The BJP Government banned a parallel legislature assembly session by the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi (MES), which led to a war of words between leaders of both states.