The Bombay High Court on Monday questioned the maintainability of a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking registration of a first information report (FIR) against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray and his party workers for allegedly assaulting Hindi-speaking people in Maharashtra.

A division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad asked the petitioner’s counsel, advocate Subhash Jha , to clarify the legal standing of the PIL. The petition also demanded that the MNS be derecognized as a political party.

The petition, filed by Ghanshyam Dayalu Upadhyay in July 2025, claimed that Thackeray and MNS cadres had indulged in mob violence against migrants from Hindi-speaking states since 2005. It alleged that such acts endangered India’s

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