The Bombay High Court (HC) on Friday issued a summons to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Narayan Rane on Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Vinayak Raut's plea seeking cancellation of the former's election from the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency.

Rane defeated Raut, a two-term Member of Parliament (MP), by a margin of 47,858 votes on June 4 in his debut election for Lok Sabha. He polled 4,48,514 votes, while Raut secured 4,00,656 votes. Narayan Rane's son Nilesh had won the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg seat in 2009 as the Congress candidate.