Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 10 (ANI): The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to hear the amended petition filed by Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik seeking permission to cast his vote in the Rajya Sabha elections.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 9 (ANI): Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Thursday moved the Bombay High Court against the order of a special PMLA court rejecting his plea for a day's bail to cast his vote for the Rajya Sabha elections to be held on Friday, said Deshmukh's lawyer Aniket Nikam.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 16 (ANI): A Special CBI court on Saturday refused to grant further custody of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to the Central Bureau of Investigation after it sought his custody for a further three days.

Mumbai Jan 28 PTI A special court here on Friday took cognizance of the Enforcement Directorates ED charge sheet against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in an alleged money laundering caseThe NCP leader in his bail application filed before the special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases claimed he was the victim of gross persecution by probe agenciesSpecial judge R N Rokade issued process against all the accused asked them or their lawyers to remain present at the next hearing and also asked the ED to file a reply on Deshmukhs bail pleaThe ED last month filed a 7000-page supplementary charge sheet which named Deshmukh and his sons as accusedThe first charge sheet in the case had named Deshmukhs aidesThe former minister was arrested by the ED on November 1 2021 and is currently in judicial custodyAfter being denied default bail bail on technical grounds the senior NCP leader through his lawyer Aniket Nikam has sought regular bail nowThe bail application claimed he was the victim of gross persecution by some elements for blatantly malafide considerations The case reflected shocking abuse of power and authority by the concerned officials who have virtually unleashed a reign of terror by subverting the process of law the plea saidSuch adventurism if unchecked will sound the death-knell to the fundamental rights it addedThe application also questioned the credibility of dismissed policeman Sachin Wazes statement to the ED in the light of Wazes later deposition before an inquiry commission probing the corruption allegations against DeshmukhBefore the commission Waze made a complete turn-around and denied making any payment to the former home minister or any of his staff it notedThe fact that there are a number of cases against Waze also speaks volumes about his credibility the bail application saidThe ED is relying on Wazes statement to the agency that Deshmukh had asked him to collect money from bar and hotel owners The statement is a part of the charge sheetThe court asked the probe agency to file its reply to Deshmukhs bail plea on February 4The ED launched a probe against Deshmukh after the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI filed an FIR against the NCP leader on April 21 2021 for alleged corruption The EDs case is that while serving as state home minister Deshmukh through assistant police inspector Waze who was later dismissed from service after arrest in the Antilia bomb scare case collected Rs 470 crore from various bars in MumbaiThe money was laundered and routed to Nagpur-based Shri Sai Shikshan Sansthan an educational trust controlled by the Deshmukh family the ED claimed PTI AVI NP KRK KRK

Mumbai, November 12: A Special PMLA Court here on Friday extended by 3 days the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, nabbed 10 days ago in an alleged money-laundering case. Strongly contesting the ED plea, Deshmukh’s lawyers Vikram Chaudhri and Aniket Nikam said that the former minister appeared before the […]

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Sunday set aside a special court order remanding Maharshtra’s former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to judicial custody, and sent him to the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) custody till November 12. The ED in its application said the special court, by remanding Deshmukh to judicial custody, had denied the agency sufficient and adequate opportunity to investigate a case that has “wide and serious ramifications” . The agency said it could interrogate Anil Deshmukh only for five days, of which two were holidays (Diwali).

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Sunday set aside a special court order remanding Maharshtra’s former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to judicial custody, and sent him to the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) custody till November 12. The ED in its application said the special court, by remanding Deshmukh to judicial custody, had denied the agency sufficient and adequate opportunity to investigate a case that has “wide and serious ramifications” . The agency said it could interrogate Anil Deshmukh only for five days, of which two were holidays (Diwali).

The Bombay High Court on Sunday set aside a special court order remanding former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh to judicial custody, and sent him in the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) custody till November 12 in a money laundering case. The ED in its application said the special court, by remanding Deshmukh to judicial custody, had […]

Mumbai Aug 24 PTI Hours after he was arrested over his controversial remarks against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray which triggered a political row and protests across Maharashtra Union minister Narayan Rane was granted bail by a court at Mahad on late Tuesday nightThe magistrates court denied the polices request for his custody but asked Rane to attend the Mahad police station on two daysThe BJP leader had said during the Jan Ashirwad Yatra of his party on Monday that he would have slapped Thackeray over the latters ignorance of the year of Indias independenceSatyamev Jayate truth always prevails Rane tweeted after getting bail and on his way back to MumbaiAfter his arrest on Tuesday afternoon Rane was taken to Mahad in Raigad district 165 km from Mumbai where an FIR was registered against him over the remark Cases were registered against him at Nashik and Pune too as the remark set off angry protests by workers of the ruling Shiv SenaRane was taken into custody at Golwali the ancestral village of former RSS chief Sadashivrao Golwalkar Guruji in Ratnagiri district He was then handed over to Raigad police around 245 pm in connection with the FIR registered at MahadThe case at Mahad was registered under IPC sections 189 threat of injury to public servant 504 intentional insult to provoke breach of public peace and 505 statements conducive to public mischiefAt the Mahad court Government pleader Bhushan Salvi sought seven-day police custody for the BJP leader It was important to investigate if there was a conspiracy to tarnish the reputation of the chief minister he saidOpposing the application Ranes lawyers Aniket Nikam and Bhau Salunkhe argued that his health condition was serious as he was 69 years old and suffered from sugar and blood pressure issuesNikam further argued that the offenses under IPC for which Rane was arrested were all punishable with less than seven years and hence his custody was unnecessaryNikam also argued that Ranes arrest was illegal as no summons was issued to him under Section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure before his arrestCourt after hearing both the sides denied the police the Union ministers custodyIt instead remanded him in judicial custody and then on the plea moved by his lawyers granted Rane bail on a surety of Rs 15000The arrest had followed Ranes statement targeting Thackeray in Raigad district on MondayIt is shameful that the chief minister does not know the year of independence He leaned back to enquire about the count of years of independence during his speech on August 15 Had I been there I would have given him a tight slap Rane had saidRane defended his remarks against Thackeray saying he hasnt committed any crime by making themOn media reportage of his imminent arrest in the case Rane said hours before his arrest that he was not a normal ordinary man and cautioned the media against such reportageRanes remarks against Thackeray drew sharp reactions from Shiv Sena whose workers put up a poster in Mumbai calling him a kombdi chor chicken stealer a reference to the poultry shop he ran in Chembur area five decades ago during the initial part of his over four-decade-long stint with the Bal Thackeray-led partyRanes remarks against Uddhav Thackeray set off protests in Mumbai and several other cities which included pelting of stones and vandalising offices of BJP in some areas by Shiv Sena cadresIn Mumbai activists of Yuva Sena the youth wing of the Sena and the BJP clashed near Ranes residence on the Juhu Tara Road in Santacruz WestStones were pelted from both sides following which police used cane-charge to disperse the agitators an official said adding heavy police security was deployed outside Ranes residenceSlamming the Maharashtra government BJP president J P Nadda said Ranes arrest was violative of constitutional values and his party will not be cowed down by such actionsIn a tweet Nadda said the huge response the BJP has received in its Jan Ashirwad Yatra has jolted its rivals We fight democratically The yatra will continue he saidMaharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil distanced himself from Ranes remarks I am not defending Ranes comments but I will also not express regret Patil saidLeader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis said the BJP does not support Ranes comments but the party stands behind him 100 per centAlleging that the state police force was being used as a tool for vendetta politics the former chief minister said there should be law and order and not Taliban-like governanceShiv Sena MP Vinayak Raut wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding the sacking of Rane over his remarks against the Maharashtra chief ministerThough a team of Nashik police was earlier said to have left to take Rane in custody as an FIR has been filed against him there too a senior police official said late at night that they would not arrest the BJP leader for now in view of the Mahad courts bail order PTI DC ND ZA SP AVI SPK KR ZMN NSK GK VT KRK KRK

Mumbai Aug 24 PTI Union minister Narayan Rane approached the Bombay High Court on Tuesday challenging the FIRs registered against him in parts of Maharashtra over his remarks against state Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and sought protection from arrest Ranes petition filed through advocate Aniket Nikam sought the FIRs to be quashed The BJP leader also sought an interim order granting him protection from arrest or any coercive action The petition was mentioned before a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar seeking urgent hearing on Tuesday itself The bench however refused to hear it and said mentioning of the petition was not allowed and asked the lawyer to follow the procedure File an application before the Registry department seeking urgent hearing and then we will consider the court said Everyone has to go through the process Dont make us do the job of the Registry the HC said The petition has challenged three FIRs lodged against Rane in Pune Nashik and Mahad in Raigad Nikam said the police had not followed the procedure laid down in law before taking steps to arrest Rane Summons under section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure has not been issued Nikam said Under this section the police in cases where arrest is not required can issue summons to the person for questioning Earlier in the day Rane approached a sessions court n Ratnagiri seeking pre-arrest bail The sessions court however refused to grant any relief noting that the case was registered in Nashik and hence it did not have the jurisdiction to hear the application Rane had sparked off a row over his remarks about slapping Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray for what he claimed as the latters ignorance of the year of Indias independence It is shameful that the chief minister does not know the year of independence He leaned back to enquire about the count of years of independence during his speech Had I been there I would have given him a tight slap Rane said during his Jan Ashirwad Yatra in Raigad district on Monday The BJP leader and former Shiv Sena chief minister claimed Thackeray forgot the year of independence during his August 15 address to the people of the state Thackeray had to check the year of independence with his aides midway during the speech that day Rane said Following his remarks a complaint was lodged against Rane by Nashik city Shiv Sena unit chief at the Cyber police station there Based on the complaint an FIR was registered against Rane in Nashik under IPC sections 500 defamation 5052 mischief 153-B 1c remarks likely to cause disharmony or feeling of enmity or hatred or ill-will a police official said Nashik Police Commissioner Deepak Pandey on Tuesday issued orders for the immediate arrest of Rane after an FIR was registered against him in the north Maharashtra city over his remarks against the CM PTI SP GK GK