Nilesh, president of Swabiman Transport Organization
(STO), an outfit of the Congress party, is alleged to have hatched a conspiracy
in the murderous assault and firing on his organization's vice president Chintu
Shaikh three days ago.
Defending his son, Rane had alleged that the Sena itself
was behind the attack and was trying to defame the Rane family. "The Sena
is a party without leaders, and that's why they have asked a lady legislator
Dr. Neelam Gorhe, from Pune, to lead them," Rane stated.
Though the initial police inquiry has given a clean chit
to Nilesh, the opposition Sena-BJP alliance is not willing to accept the police
theory.
The Sena delegation consisting of members of Parliament Sanjay
Raut, Bharat Kumar Raut, legislator and deputy leader of the Sena in the
Maharashtra Legislative Council Dr. Neelam Gorhe, legislator Ramdas Kadam,
senior Sena leaders Diwakar Raote and Anil Parab, handed a petition to the
Chavan.
In the petition, the Sena demanded that the police should
register a case under attempt to murder read with section 307 of the Indian
penal code against Rane and his goons. They questioned as to why Nilesh and his
goons who attacked Shaikh were not being arrested despite a cognizable offense
being registered against them.
Sanjay Raut alleged that because the father of the
accused is a powerful Congress minister and also also involved in the case,
Nilesh was roaming free, trying to destroy evidence and threatening the
witnesses.
On the claims made by the police and Rane that the
medical report of Shaikh dismisses the allegation that Shaikh had sustained
bullet injuries, the Sena in the petition stated that Hiranandani hospital, where
Shaikh had under gone medical checkup, is owned by renowned builder Hiranandani.
He has many land litigations in the Revenue Ministry headed by Rane. It
questioned as to how the police had accepted the clean chit given by a private
hospital.
Criticizing the police, Raut told the chief minister
"Maharashtra is now becoming another Bihar. Till now we were only hearing
the stories about the terror unleashed by ministers and their family members in
Bihar. But now we are witnessing incidents like that of Bihar taking place in
Maharashtra.”
