In which case were you fearing arrest?: Shiv Sena (UBT) asks Devendra Fadnavis

The Shiv Sena UBT on Wednesday took a dim view of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis claim that the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government had tried to put him in jail and asked the BJP leader in which case was he fearing arrestAn editorial in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana claimed that IPS officers had threatened MVA legislators to support Fadnavis and spied on them by tapping their phonesFadnavis should explain if such illegal phone tapping is a crime or not it saidMaharashtras political culture has never seen instances of arrest of political opponents and harassment of their family members the Marathi publication saidAfter the 2019 Assembly polls the Uddhav Thackerayled Shiv Sena snapped ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial postThackeray later tiedup with the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress to form the MVA in the stateHis government collapsed in June last year after a revolt against the Sena leadership by Eknath Shinde and 39 other legislators On June 30 Shinde became the chief minister with BJP leader Fadnavis as his deputyFadnavis recently said the previous MVA government had given a target to then Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey to put me in jail but the police officer could not succeed as he had done nothing wrongReacting to it the Saamana editorial on Wednesday asked Why is Fadnavis scared that he may be arrestedAlso Read Ailing MLAs brought to vote Fadnavis hits back at Ajit Pawars selfish BJP swipeIn which case was he fearing arrest and what connection did he have with the caseFadnavis should have clarified it saidIn the last few days Fadnavis has been speaking blatant lies it claimed adding this is not the sanskar of the Sangh RSSThe Marathi daily said the MVA government had filed cases against IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in Pune and Mumbai in connection with the alleged phone tappingThe phones of MVA leaders were illegally tapped when Fadnavis was the chief minister it said The phone numbers of MVA leaders were out for tapping under different names said to be of drug peddlers and terrorists it claimedFadnavis should also explain if such illegal tapping is a crime or not the editorial saidThe investigating officers in the case visited Fadnavis when he was the leader of opposition and took his statement respectfully There was no need to make an issue out of it the Marathi daily saidMVA leaders Anil Deshmukh Nawab Malik Sanjay Raut was arrested by central probe agencies unnecessarily If the phone tapping case was not serious enough why was former Mumbai police chief Sanjay Pandey arrested in the same case the editorial askedThe cases against Rashmi Shukla were dropped and she was promoted it notedIn fact the Eknath ShindeFadnavis government should have taken the phone tapping case to its logical end by allowing completion of the probe into it the editorial saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever