Maharashtra: CBI files case against Anil Deshmukh for attempting to frame BJP leaders in false cases
The former state home minister and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader called the allegations ‘baseless’ in a post on X.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a first information report against Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader and former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh for allegedly trying to frame Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in false cases, NDTV reported on Wednesday.
In 2022, Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, who was then the Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly, had given a pen drive to the Assembly speaker containing purported audio and visual evidence of the charges against Deshmukh.
After this, the Central Bureau of Investigation began a preliminary inquiry. A case was registered after nearly two years of the investigation on July 31, according to NDTV.
According to the first information report, the prima facie findings of the inquiry said that Special Public Prosecutor Pravin Pandit Chavan conspired with a man named Vijay Bhaskarrao Patil, who acted as the complainant, and Deshmukh to file a zero FIR on December 9, 2020 at the Nimbhora Jalgaon police station, The Indian Express reported.
This zero FIR was related to a two-year-old incident in Pune “to falsely implicate BJP leaders and others to wrest control of the Jalgaon Zilla Maratha Vidhya Prasarak Sahakari Samaj Limited [educational institution],” the Central Bureau of Investigation has alleged.
“Later, the zero FIR was transferred to Pune and registered on January 5,...
