A day after Mumbai police arrested independent MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana, Shiv Sena's chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut defended the action, saying there there must have been some reason behind the police action.

Referring to the attack on former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya's car near Khar police station on April 23, Raut told reporters that "some traitors do get pelted with stones". Somaiya had gone to the police station to meet the Rana couple, whose earlier call for chanting Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister and Sena president Uddhav Thackeray's residence 'Matoshree' had angered the Sena cadres.