Bal Thackeray arrested, released on bail

  Bal Thackeray arrested, released on bail 

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray was on Friday arrested and immediately released on bail after a magistrate in Mumbai issued bailable warrant against him for not appearing in the court in a criminal case.
Thackeray is facing the case, filed by a Nationalist Congress Party activist, in Andheri magistrate's court for an allegedly communally provocative speech given a year ago.
"We received the bailable warrant from the court and immediately executed the warrant at Thackeray's residence Matoshree in Bandra at around 1400 hours," Deputy Commissioner of Police R N Tadvi told PTI in Mumbai.
The sessions court had on Thursday granted some reprieve to Thackeray by exempting him from further appearance in the trial.
NCP activist Munna Tripathi had filed the complaint demanding action against Thackeray for making an allegedly communally provocative speech on June 19, 2006 on the occasion of Sena's foundation day.
The NCP activist also made Saamna daily a party in the case for printing the full text of the speech.
The metropolitan magistrate's court issued a bailable warrant against the 80-year-old Sena patriarch after he failed to turn up in the court.
Thackeray challenged the warrant in the sessions court which, however, ordered the execution of the warrant. Earlier this week, Tripathi came back to the sessions court, complaining no action had been taken on the earlier order.
The sessions court on Thursday asked the police to execute the warrant by going to Thackeray's residence. http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/sep/21sena.htm 

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray arrested, released on bail

PTI Sep 21, 2007, 08.18pm IST

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray was on Friday arrested and immediately released on bail after a magistrate here issued bailable warrant against him for not appearing in the court in a criminal case.
Thackeray is facing the case, filed by a NCP activist, in Andheri Magistrate's Court for an allegedly communally provocative speech given a year ago. 

Arrest Bal Thackeray, Raj under National Security Act: Ramvilas Paswan 

Attacking top leaders of Shiv Sena and MNS for its tirade against North Indians, the LJP today demanded the arrest of its chiefs under the National Security Act (NSA) for fanning divisive sentiments in Maharashtra.
"The uncle and nephew (Bal Thackeray and Raj Thackeray) are violating the principles laid down in the Constitution. They are virtually engaging in anti-national activities by fanning divisive sentiments and they deserve to be arrested under National Security Act," Lok Janshakti Party chief Ramvilas Paswan said here.
Taking potshots at the Congress, the LJP chief said he wondered why the party appeared so helpless when it came to taking action against Shiv Sena and MNS.
"Congress has a government at the Centre as well as in the state in alliance with NCP. I do not understand why the Central and the state government are so helpless. The government, especially the state government, is not taking as much action as it should have taken," Paswan alleged.
He was responding to questions on AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi's remarks in Patna yesterday that he will not remain silent if people from Bihar and UP are made to suffer in Maharashtra, arguing that any citizen of the country can live and work anywhere in the country.
Paswan however evaded a direct reply when asked whether it was a political stunt by Gandhi in view of the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, saying, "I do not know what it is."

Pakistan to India: Arrest terrorist Bal Thackeray

Bal Thackeray should be handed over to Pakistan to face trial
Comparing Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray with wanted Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) chief Hafeez Muhammad Saeed Pakistan wants New Delhi to take action against the Bal Thackery–the leader of a bigoted organization that routinely spouts venom against Pakistan. Mr. Bal Thackery is wanted for murder in Pakistan.
Wanted dead or alive Bal Thackery
During an interaction with a visiting India media delegation here, Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit was asked as to why Islamabad was dragging its feet on taking action against Saeed despite India providing numerous dossiers, which nails his direct involvement in the Mumbai carnage.
“I don’t hold brief for Hafiz Saeed. We arrested him. Have you arrested Bal Thackeray for making hate speeches against Pakistan,” Basit replied.
Commenting on India’s consistent claims that the groups like the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were still running terror training camps inside Pakistan’s boundary, he said Islamabad is ready to take on those camps if exact information is shared with it.
Basit reiterated Islamabad’s demand for re-starting the stalled composite dialogue with India, saying such talks had proved to be of great help in building confidence between the two neighbouring countries.
“It helped us sign prior notification of missile trials, it helped us in ceasefire and to agree on confidence building measures on Kashmir. It created a congenial atmosphere as well,” the spokesperson said.
Basit also pointed out that disputes like Siachen could not be settled unilaterally.
“We had made enormous progress on Siachen and Sir Creek. These issues can be handled quickly if the dialogue is resumed,” he said.
He also objected to India’s hardened stance on the resumption of the
composite dialogue, saying its better not to engage in any form of deliberation than to add ‘pre-conditions’ to composite talks.
Basit also condemned India for labelling happenings in Kashmir as a ‘terrorist struggle’, and said Pakistan would never accept those claims.
Bal Thackeray continues to publish inflammatory editorials in his party’s newsletter, Sâmna (Confrontation). When explaining his views on Hindutva he has conflated Islam with violence and has called for Hindus to “fight terrorism and fight Islam.” In an interview that is published in Suketu Mehta’s book titled Maximum City, he advocates the hanging of Indian Muslims and mass expulsion of Muslim migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. One of his more acerbic statements needs attention: “They [Muslims] are spreading like a cancer and should be operated on like a cancer. The…country should be saved from the Muslims and the police should support them [Hindu Maha Sangh] in their struggle just like the police in Punjab were sympathetic to the Khalistanis.”
Moreover, Thackeray had criticised and challenged the Indian Muslims through his party newspaper, Sâmna, when the 16th century Babri Masjid was demolished by members of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the northern town of Ayodhya, on December 6, 1992. The razing of the mosque was followed by mass killing and genocide of the Muslims. The Justice Srikrishna Commission of Enquiry, which investigated the communal riots in Mumbai, named Thackeray for sparking anti-Muslim violence that had led to more than 1,000 deaths in several ensuing riots.
The Srikrishna Commission found that Thackeray was personally responsible, not only for inciting the mobs through his incendiary speeches, but also directly coordinating the movement of the rioters. In a deposition before the Srikrishna Commission a witness alleged Thackeray coordinated much of the January 1993 Mumbai carnage. Yuvraj Mohite claimed: “Balasaheb ordered that not one Muslim be left alive to stand in the witness box, and asked his men to send the additional police commissioner, A A Khan, to his Allah.” Balaji later announced: “I am proud of what my boys have done. We had to retaliate and we did. If it was not for us, no one would have controlled the Muslims.” He has since made more inflammatory statements regarding Muslims, and reiterated his desire for Hindus to unite across linguistic barriers and to see “a Hindustan for Hindus” and to “bring Islam in this country down to its knees.”
Bal Thackeray anoints grandson Aditya into politics
on October 18th, 2010

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Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Sunday night formally anointed grandson Aditya into politics by presenting him a ceremonial sword as a crowd of over 200,000 cheered lustily.

A surprisingly robust and healthy looking Thackeray, accompanied by Aditya, arrived at the Shiv Sena Dussehra rally at the historic Shivaji Park grounds, even as his son and Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray wound up his 45-minute-long address.

First, the three generations of the Thackeray family garlanded a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji before Thackeray was escorted to his ‘throne’.

After the usual round of garlands, Aditya stood before him, clad in a simple blue kurta with sleeves rolled up to the elbows and dark trousers.

Thackeray handed his grandson a gleaming sword and touched his forehead, while Aditya bent and touched his feet. Thackeray also presented a bouquet of flowers to the 20-year-old.

Aditya then sought his father Udhav’s blessings by touching his feet.

He then came forward on the stage, raised the sword and waved it to the cheering crowds, then bowed before the gathering and syumbolically sought their blessings.

Belying expectations, Aditya did not make a speech and the stage was left for his father and grandfather.

Flanked on his right by former leader of opposition in the state assembly Ramdas Kadam and on the left by ex-chief minister and former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi, Aditya sat throughout the two-hour function and listened attentively to the speeches of the two senior Thackerays.

In his 45-minute speech, Bal Thackeray said that Aditya had progressed in the party by his deeds and urged partymen to encourage and support him. 

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Shah Rukh Deserves Nishaan-E-Pakistan: Bal Thackeray
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Watch Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray praising Pak cricketer Javed Miandads famous sixer, when the latter called on him at Matoshree in 2004. Raj and Uddhav Thackeray were also present. Says Udhav, his father had refused to allow Pak players to play in India despite Miandads request.
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