Home Ministry gives Kangana Ranaut Y - plus category security for her Mumbai visit

Kangana Ranaut has been granted Y-plus category security by the Union home ministry ahead of her Mumbai visit on September 9. The latest development comes, after the Panga actress got into a verbal brawl with Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut. According to reports, the actress while be guarded by 10 armed commandos. The verbal duel between the actor and Raut started after her “Mumbai feeling like Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir” comment last Thursday. She had also said that she feared Mumbai Police more than what she has dubbed as ‘movie mafia’.

Raut had hit back in Sena’s mouthpiece Saamana after that, asking Kangana not to return to Mumbai for criticising Mumbai Police. “This issue concerns the pride of Maharashtra and there will be no compromise on this front. Ranaut needs to apologise for her PoK remarks or she will face the music from our women’s wing,” he had said in the editorial.Refusing to back down, Kangana had said she will return to Mumbai on September 9 and said Raut is ‘not Maharashtra’. On Sunday, the Himachal Pradesh government said the state will provide security to Kangana Ranaut and was reportedly also considering to extend the security during her upcoming visit to Mumbai. The decision was announced by Himachal Chief Minister Jairam Thakur.