[5][6] The incident was also seen as a rise of Bihari sub-nationalism to counter the agitation against migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar by MNS.
[6] On 27 October 2008, Rahul Raj, a 25-year-old man from Patna, boarded a double decker city bus route No.
ACP Sadanand Date, the officer overseeing the operation (who was later seriously injured and attracted international attention during the 2008 Mumbai attacks because of his actions resisting terrorists at the Cama and Albless Hospital )[citation needed], later told reporters that Rahul Raj had fired upon the police & also shot a hostage passenger.
[6] The killing of Rahul Raj sparked a row between the politicians of Bihar and Maharashtra with several parties demanding a judicial probe into the incident.
[11] Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, also from the state of Bihar, joined hands with his archrivals Nitish Kumar and Ram Vilas Paswan to condemn the killing of Bihari youth Rahul Raj and demanded action.
[14] The MNS general secretary Shirish Parkar accused the ruling Congress and NCP parties trying to appease both Marathis and North Indians and their leaders.
Those who take the law in their hands, will be dealt with in the same way.The Bihar Government and the people of the state share the view that a CBI inquiry is necessary to bring out the truth.
After all, why a young man carrying a country made pistol, who could have been easily overpowered, was shot dead by the police?
It is tragic that the country's premier police force should gloat over a grievously botched-up operation for Rahul could have been disarmed through even a simple use of tear smoke.
After all photographs published in the newspapers show, Rahul was carrying a country made firearm which is hardly a lethal weapon that should have scared the crack team of Mumbai Police.
His intention was to draw public and government attention to the tirade started by MNS activists against north Indians.
[3] When Maharashtra chief secretary Johny Joseph recently visited the hospital to record Manoj Bhagat's statement, the injured man was unable to recall the incident and the sequence of events.
[20] A Public Interest Litigation was filed in the apex court to seeks judicial probe into the killings of Rahul Raj.
[21] Supreme Court issued a notice to the Maharashtra government asking it to respond to allegations of violence against north Indians by MNS workers.