A division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice Mridula Bhatkar asked Sena Member, Sitaram Dalvi, to ask the party to pay for damaging the premises of Hotel Intercontinental [now Hotel Intercontinental The Lalit] in January 2009.
According to the Justice Ranjana Desai "It is not about money. It is about principle. Such activities should be stopped".
And further said "You can't go on damaging public property. Ultimately we have to pay the tax."
This judgement is remarkable as Political parties always uses political vandalism as a tool and due to lack of Political Will they have been getting away with vandalism. The state government had recently told the court that it did not wish to take action against senior party leaders, such as Thackeray, for political vandalism.
Citizen activists hope if the Sena is made to pay to the hotel, it will send a strong message to other parties.
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