Devendra Fadnavis alleges conspiracy to frame BJP leaders

In a sensational revelation the Opposition leader in the Assembly Devendra Fadnavis produced in the house video recordings of a special public prosecutor police officials and some politicians associated with the ruling parties discussing how to lodge false criminal cases against him and his party colleaguesFadnavis was making an opening statement on a motion the opposition moved on Tuesday to debate lsquodeterioratingrsquo law and order in the state He demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation CBI probe in the matter He also reiterated the demand for senior Cabinet minister Nawab Maliks resignation for dealing financially with the family of the underworld don and the countrys most wanted terrorist Dawood IbrahimThe exCM said he had 125 hours of video recordings of Special Public Prosecutor SSP Adv Pravin Pandit Chavan tutoring the police officials complainants and politicians on framing his party colleagues He said exministers Girish Mahajan Jaikumar Rawal Sanjay Kute Sudhir Mungantiwar Chandrakant Patil Subhash Deshmukh and Chandrashekhar Bawakules names were discussed in the video footagelsquoCase was cooked uprsquoHe said the case against Mahajan and his PA Rameshwar was cooked up ldquoThe evidence like a knife and blood on it photos etc was planted as suggested and planned by Chavan They also tried to make up a MCOCA case against Mahajan by discussing planting of drugsrdquo he added The date of the alleged kidnapping of a member of Maratha Vidya Prasarak Mandal was also mentioned but it was changed to ldquoa particular weekrdquo after realising that Mahajan was not in Pune ldquoon the date mentioned in the FIRrdquoAccording to the transcript of the videos Fadnavis read outChavan talked about a certain lsquobade sahebrsquo Mahajanrsquos local political rival and former Bharatiya Janata Party BJP ministerturnedNationalist Congress leader Eknath Khadse former home minister Anil Deshmukh and his successor Dilip Walse Patil deputy CM Ajit Pawar water resources minister Jayant Patil civil supplies minister Chhagan Bhujbal exMLA Anil Gote former and current chiefs of the Mumbai police the police officers of the rank of deputy and assistant police commissioners in the case filed against Mahajan However the transcript does not suggest that all persons mentioned in it supported Chavan and others Majahan said outside the house that the lsquobade sahebrsquo the SPP mentioned on several occasions was NCP chief Sharad Pawar He said the videos should be sent to all forensic laboratories in the country for verification ldquoI am ready to undergo a Narco test Let others also undergo the same Take action after verification But only the CBI should proberdquo Fadnavis said Mahajan was given relief by the court because it realised that the case was not what it was made to be He further read that the SPP boasted about writing the FIR on behalf of the police and tutoring witnesses choosing the panch for panchnama and microplanning the raid He said the videos have dialogues between the SPP DCP and ACPlsquoPlans to trap FadnavisrsquoThe transcript further quotes Chavan as claiming to be ready to frame Fadnavis in the CMrsquos Relief Fund complaint which he proposes to get filed in Solapur rural and other party colleagues as wished by lsquobade sahebrsquo who wants to finish these leaders anyhow He is quoted as saying that there is a person in Mumbai who can manage the judiciaryFadnavis said he would move the court if his demand for a CBI inquiry was not met ldquoWho will investigate here The police themselves are involved and the government itself is part of the conspiracy We will fight it out till the endrdquo he said Walse Patil refused to comment on the allegations ldquoI havenrsquot seen the videos yetrdquo he told media persons The home minister will reply to the oppositions motion on Wednesday