New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint or charge sheet against activist-lawyer Satish Mahadevrao Uke and his elder brother Pradip Mahadevrao Uke in money laundering offence connected with land grabbing case situated at Nagpur.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 6 (ANI): The Mumbai PMLA court on Wednesday extended the Enforcement Directorate custody of Nagpur-based advocates Satish Uke and his brother Pradeep Uke till April 11 in connection with a money laundering case.

Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], April 2 (ANI): Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Saturday alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying to defame him and his party by linking his name with Advocate Satish Uke, who was recently taken into Enforcement Directorate's (ED) custody in connection with a money laundering case.

Mumbai Mar 31 PTI Maharashtras ruling coalition ally NCP on Thursday accused the central government of using its probe agencies to muzzle the voices of the BJPs political opponentsMaharashtra NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said the Enforcement Directorate ED has registered 4700 cases and arrested 313 people since the Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA became effective in 2002Addressing a press conference here Tapase said these figures were submitted by the Centre to the Supreme CourtThe NCPs attack on the Centre came on a day when the ED conducted searches at the house of a Nagpur-based lawyer Satish Uke who has filed several petitions against senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis in the last few yearsTapase said the ED has carried out around 1700 raids 2011 onwards and added that the Union finance ministry had recently informed that conviction of accused persons was secured from courts in very few cases registered under the PMLAWe are seeing that an attempt is being made to settle scores with political opponents of the BJP through the agencies The Centre is using its probe agencies to muzzle the voices of its the BJPs political opponents on a big scale the NCP chief spokesperson allegedHe said the conviction rate in cases registered under the PMLA will actually go up if political interference in functioning of the ED is avoidedTapase further said BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had filed a complaint before the ED against Union Minister Narayan Rane in 2016 when the latter was in the Congress and asked what happened to that caseRane joined the BJP in 2019Has Rane got a clean chit It should be disclosed he saidThe NCP leader also attacked the central government over rising fuel prices saying it has adversely affected common peopleThe NCP is part of the Shiv Sena-led MVA government in which the Congress is also a constituent PTI ENM RSY RSY

Nagpur Jan 21 PTI A few days after Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patoles video about badmouthing and beating up Modi snowballed into a controversy and he had to clarify that he was talking about a local goon a man arrived in Nagpur Press Club with his lawyer on Friday to claim he was the person being referred to in the video Speaking to the media Umesh Premdas Gharde said he had an altercation with a Congressman in Bhandara over drinking liquor and he had abused the latter five to six people in his native village Gondi and Nanabhau Patole in an inebriated condition I am Umesh Premdas Gharde alias Modi I used to live in Nagpur I had a fight with my wife after which I went back to my native village Gondi in Bhandara he said Ghardes story was confirmed by lawyer Satish Uke who accompanied him to Press Club here Gharde had apologised to the local Congressmen a few days ago and the matter was resolved till the video of Patole turned the issue into a political slugfest he said To prove his point Uke also produced the copy of an FIR registered in Palandpur police station in Bhandara in 2020 in which the complainants name was given as Umesh alias Modi Premdas Gharde PTI CLS BNM BNM BNM