India, July 5 -- The Mumbai police late Thursday night registered a case against Deepak Pawar, founder-president of the Marathi Abhyas Kendra, four Shiv Sena (UBT) functionaries and 300 other party workers for unlawful assembly during a protest at Azad Maidan on June 29.

During the protest, outside the Marathi Patrakar Sangh at Azad Maidan, organisations working towards promoting the Marathi language had burnt copies of the two government resolutions (GRs) introducing Hindi as the third language in schools from class 1. Opposition leaders, including Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, his son and MLA Aaditya Thackeray, Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs Sanjay Raut and Anil Desai, and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Nitin Sardesai, particip...