Given interim relief by the Bombay High Court in the alleged slur against the Maharashtra Chief Minister, Union minister Narayan Rane refused to comment on the case further because of legal issues. He did, however, announce that no one could do anything to him, and that he had always been able to defeat the efforts made against him, especially by his detractors in the Shiv Sena.

Rane addressed a press conference on Wednesday in Mumbai after the HC posted the hearing on his plea seeking relief in the cases registered against him to September 17, and the state government assured the HC that it would not take any coercive action till the day of the next hearing.