mumbai independent member of parliament from vidharbha navneet rana and her mla husband ravi rana were sent by a holiday magistrate on sunday to judicial custody for 14 days following their arrest on saturday for allegedly breaching or attempting to the communal peace in the citythe police in its remand plea said on sunday that prime minister narendra modi would be arriving in mumbai and despite being aware of his visit it has to be investigated whether the couple wanted to disrupt the peace in the community and promote enmity between different groups mumbai is the financial capital of india said the police adding they need to investigate whether the ranas knowingly wanted to promote communal disharmony and cause a situation amenable to riots in the citythe magistrate a a ghaniwale rejected the mumbai police request for their police custody for maximum possible time not satisfied with its reasons for such custodythe magistrate asked the public prosecutor pradeep gharat why did the police want their custody he said for their probe and further investigation the court also asked if they had to recover anything from the couple or whether anything was missing lawyers said later outside as the media was barred entry inside court by the policethere was a large police deployment outside with cops asking media reporters to remain behind high iron barricadespublic prosecutor pradeep gharat leaving the bandra courtthe arrest was made by khar police it followed a high voltage faceoff between the shiv sena and the independent mla and his wife over reciting the hanuman chalisa outside the thackeray family homeranas counsel rizwan merchant opposed the plea for police custody and questioned the very arrest calling it illegal he questioned the invocation of section 124a ipc for offence of sedition by the police in the fir he said there was nothing uttered that would justify slapping sedition on themthe magistrate after hearing both sides passed an order by writing it out in his own handwriting as court was closedthe couple then immediately filed for bail and the court sought a say of the public prosecutor by april 27 and posted it for hearing on april 29advocate rizwan merchant for navneet rana and her husband ravi ranathe remand application submitted by the public prosecutor said that the couple were attempting to cause an explosive situation when the tensions were already high over the issue of loudspeakers at masjidsthe application which was filed in marathi said right now all over maharashtra the issue of loudspeakers and the demand of lowering their volume has been initiated by some political factions in such explosive environ the accused not only said they would come to mumbai and sing the hanuman chalisa outside matoshree but they actually came to mumbai and created an explosive situation and hence the law and order situation could take a turn for the worsethe police had already issued a notice under section 149 criminal procedure code to maintain peace in society but they gave inflammatory media