MUMBAI: Maharashtra BJP legislator Ashish Shelar on Wednesday demanded a
CBI inquiry into the alleged involvement of
Shiv Sena leader and state minister Anil Parab in the arrest of Union minister Narayan Rane. Shelar made the demand while speaking to reporters here.
Rane was arrested on Tuesday afternoon for his remark made during the ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ of his party the previous day that he would have slapped
Uddhav Thackeray over the latter’s “ignorance” of the year of India’s independence.
“BJP demands a CBI inquiry into the alleged involvement of state transport minister Anil Parab in the arrest of Rane as the
Sena leader was heard telling someone that the Union minister’s bail plea is going to be rejected. All the phone calls made by Parab and IPS officials involved into it should be probed,” he said.
“There is a video clip of Parab talking to someone on Tuesday around 1 pm over phone informing that the sessions court is going to reject the bail plea of Rane. The application was rejected around 4 pm, but Parab had informed the person on the other side much before it. This is suspicious and raises questions over state’s intentions,” he said. The video clip was from Ratnagiri District Planning and Development Council (DPDC) meeting chaired by Parab, who is its guardian minister, Shelar added.
“Parab’s action is an insult of the state judiciary as well as an act of pressuring IPS officials...,”he claimed.