amazons facilities in pune and suburban mumbai were reportedly vandalised friday by workers of the maharashtra navnirman sena mns for the alleged failure of the web commerce company to offer a shopping app in marathithe mns action comes after a court in mumbai thursday asked its president raj thackeray to be present at a hearing next month in connection with an amazon suit that alleged obstructive interference of the party into its business operations the workers reportedly targeted an amazon office in pune a warehouse in mumbai and another facility in chandivali in the central suburbs of the metropolis advt we had approached them two to three months ago and had raised the issue of why they need to launch a marathi app for amazon said nitin sardesai an mns leader they initially agreed however later on they refused then they went to court against us we had that case quashed but now they have filed a second case against us making party president raj thackeray and others the respondentssardesai said he was not aware of incidents of vandalism at the amazon propertiesan amazon india spokesperson said this is an unfortunate incident at our site by external parties and we are working with the site team to ensure safety of people we will continue to extend all cooperation to law enforcement as may be necessary safety of associates is our key priority and we will continue to ensure a safe working environment for all our associates for its part amazon said it would continue to expand the language options on its shopping platforms we remain committed to enabling amazon online shopping experience across various indian languages including marathi the amazon spokesperson told et amazon customers can already shop in hindi and four other regional languages in addition to english we will continue to add more languages for an enhanced customer experiencesources close to amazon said the company would not have gone to court if it hadnt faced repeated incidents of violence or vandalism at its maharashtra facilities although not all incidents were related to interventions by the mns advt it approached the city civil court at dindoshi in mumbai after mns workers reportedly vandalised outdoor advertisements put up by the companythe mns vandalism comes in the same week in which the maharashtra government held its magnetic maharashtra investor meet where it signed mous worth rs 65000 crore maharashtra industries minister subhash desai told et that the police would take action against the mns workers involved in vandalism desai however added that he would also speak to amazon officials on the marathi app this violence is definitely not acceptable and the police will take action against those who have indulged in it desai said i will also speak to amazons senior officials because maharashtra is a big market for them and majority of the people in the state speak marathi so it would be in their business interest too to attract more consumers if they launch an appa source aware of