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Govt challenges court order discharging Thackeray

The Maharashtra government Thursday filed an appeal in the Bombay high court challenging the July 25 order of a magistrate who closed the case against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and two others for alleged inflammatory writings in party's mouthpiece Saamna in early 1993.

The state has retained P R Vakil to argue the matter as special public prosecutor. The appeal is likely to come up before Justice Vishnu Sahai, high court sources told PTI.

Vakil may request the judge Friday to fix an early date for the hearing.

On July 25, additional chief metropolitan magistrate B P Kamble had discharged Thackeray, executive editor Sanjay Raut and printer-publisher Subhash Desai in the case on the ground that it was time-barred.

The magistrate had observed that the offence registered against the accused under section 153 A IPC (inciting communal passions through words spoken or written) was barred by time limitation under section 468(2)(c) CrPC and hence the court could not take cognisance of the cases.

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