A week later, Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis alleged that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders hatched a conspiracy in the office of Special Public Prosecutor Pravin Chavan. BJP Several leaders, including himself, Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil informed the Assembly on Monday that Special Public Prosecutor Praveen Chavan has resigned. He also announced a probe by the Criminal Investigation Department into the allegations leveled by Fadnavis.
On March 8, Leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis presented a video recording before Deputy Speaker of the Assembly Narhari Jirwal, in which some persons, including Special Public Prosecutor Praveen Chavan and leaders of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi Alliance, are heard plotting to implicate BJP leaders. could.
Walse-Patil, while replying to a debate on law and order in the lower house on Monday, said that the sting operation would be investigated. Patil also announced the resignation of Special Public Prosecutor Chavan.
“Advocate Praveen Chavan, whose name was raised in the sting operation, has resigned from the post of public prosecutor. We will verify the details given in the pen drive and the CID will check. After its report, we will initiate action,” said Walse Patil.
This sting operation of Praveen Chavan will be investigated. There is no question of supporting anyone involved in this,” the home minister said. Speaking to Express, Praveen Chavan said, “I was the Special Public Prosecutor in the case against Girish Mahajan lodged at Kothrud police station. I have voluntarily resigned from that duty. The allegations against me are completely baseless.”
Fadnavis had earlier claimed that there was an attempt to implicate BJP MLA Girish Mahajan in a 2018 case related to Maratha Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, where Mahajan was booked for alleged extortion and criminal intimidation. Fadnavis said that the present government had hatched a conspiracy to impose MCOCA against Mahajan and demanded a CBI probe.
Fadnavis on Monday said the state government cannot investigate the allegations leveled by him and insisted on a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation. “If our demand is not accepted, BJP will approach the court,” he said.
After this, BJP MLAs staged a walkout demanding a CBI inquiry.
Meanwhile, Walse Patil claimed that illegal phone tapping between 2015 and 2019 involved four elected representatives who were then affiliated with the BJP or affiliated with the party. He said that permission was taken to tap the present Congress state president Nana Patole in the name of Amjad Khan. Minister of State Bacchu Kadu’s phone was tapped in the name of Nizamuddin Babu Sheikh and higher officials were told that he was a drug dealer. Then the phone of BJP MLA Ashish Deshmukh was tapped in the name of Heena Salunkhe.
“The phone tapping was done illegally under the guise of keeping the phones of drug smugglers under surveillance,” he said. Walse Patil in his speech also asked Fadnavis why he did not investigate the land deal. Nawab Malik When he was CM and Home Minister. Malik is a five-time MLA. He is now being targeted as he has been raising issues against the central government.