<br/>MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Monday surrendered before a local court in a case of rioting registered against him in 2008 and was later released on bail. <br/> <br/>Raj was granted bail by a judicial magistrate in Umergaon village of Osmanabad on a bond of 15,000 rupees. <br/> <br/>He was accompanied by his lawyer Sayaji Nangre. The MNS chief was arrested on October 21, 2008, in Ratnagiri in connection with an agitation launched by his party against north Indians.<br/>