PIL demands police cases against DCM, Raj
A PIL was filed in the Bombay high court on Friday, seeking the court’s direction to lodge police cases against DCM Ajit Pawar and MNS chief Raj Thackeray for instigating their party workers to engage in rioting and damaging public property last month.
The PIL also demanded that the cost of the damages be recovered from the leaders.
The petition, filed by Hemant Patil, president of Rashtriya Brashtachar Virodhi Janshakti, claimed that Mr Ajit Pawar and Mr Thackeray’s public criticism of each other had triggered the violence.
The two leaders had been recently taking potshots at each other. “In various districts across the state, party workers of the MNS and the NCP have been indulging in violent activities and disturbing the peace and harmony of the society. The MNS chief has used vulgar and abusive words against various other political leaders like Sushilkumar Shinde and Sharad Pawar,” the petition said.
The petition will come up for hearing in due course of time.
Mr Ajit Pawar, nephew of NCP boss Mr Sharad Pawar, had recently attacked Mr Thackeray for mimicking political leaders during a rally.
He said that this would only “entertain” people and not solve the state’s problems.
Mr Thackeray retaliated by accusing the DCM, who headed the water resources ministry between 1999 and 2009, of being responsible for water scarcity despite the state spending crores on irrigation projects. There have been allegations of a `70,000 crore-scam in the irrigation department, which has been with NCP since the inception of the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra in 1999.
Furious over Mr Thackeray’s accusations against their leader, NCP workers had hurled stones at MNS leader’s convoy at Bhingar in the Ahmednagar district on February 26, triggering a spate of incidents of violence and arson in Mumbai, Pune and Thane.
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