Maharashtra BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad, who shot at Shiv Sena chief Mahesh Gaikwad, has been remanded to police custody until February 14 by a court docket in Thane. This comes a day after the Kalyan (East) MLA was arrested for the capturing inside a police station in Maharashtra’s Ulhasnagar.
The incident was captured on CCTV put in contained in the workplace of a senior inspector on the Hill Line Police Station in Ulhasnagar. The MLA fired 4 rounds of bullets at Mahesh Gaikwad, the Kalyan unit chief of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena. Mahesh Gaikwad is at the moment receiving therapy on the Jupiter Hospital in Thane.
The 2 leaders whose events are a part of the ruling ‘Mahayuti’ coalition within the state allegedly had a long-standing land dispute and an argument broke out between them on the police station.
Ganpat Gaikwad and two others had been produced earlier than a court docket of First Class Judicial Justice of the Peace in Ulhasnagar on Saturday. The Justice of the Peace, AA Nikam, remanded the trio to police custody until February 14.
Talking concerning the incident, Thane DCP Sudhakar Pathare stated, “Mahesh Gaikwad and Ganpat Gaikwad had differences about something, and they came to the police station to give a complaint. At that time, they had a talk and Ganpat Gaikwad fired at Mahesh Gaikwad and his people. Two people were injured in this. An investigation is underway.”
Following the capturing incident on the federal government premises, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ordered a high-level enquiry into the incident, and a Particular Investigation Workforce has been shaped to take up the probe.