Ex-Mira Bhayandar mayor, 19 others booked for assault, rioting

Around 20 persons, including a former mayor of the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) and her ten bodyguards, were booked for allegedly manhandling the organisers of a Navratri event in the township and creating a ruckus, police said on Thursday.

The offence was registered at the Naya Nagar police station in Mira Bhayandar after the incident that took place on Wednesday night, police said.

Former mayor of Mira Bhayandar, Geeta Jain, her 10 bodyguards and followers were booked, they said.

According to police, the incident occurred during the event held in Shanti Nagar area in the township, where the current mayor of Mira Bhayandar, Dimple Mehta, was being felicitated.

She is the sister-in-law of Narendra Mehta, BJP's sitting MLA from Mira Bhayandar, who has been renominated by the party from the seat for the assembly elections due later this month. Jain is Mehta's political rival.

"During the function, Dimple Mehta was being felicitated. Just then, Geeta Jain ...