After a tough fight, the Shiv Sena Tuesday won the Bombay High Court's approval to hold its annual Dussehra rally - its first after party supremo Bal Thackeray's death last November - at the Shivaji Park in Dadar as usual.

A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice M.S. Sanklecha granted the permission after observing that it was not a "political rally, but a socio-cultural function".