The Vanrai police have registered an FIR against Mangesh Vasant Pandilkar, a relative of Ravindra Waikar—the Shiv Sena candidate who won the Mumbai North West Lok Sabha seat by 48 votes—for allegedly using a mobile phone inside the centre in Goregaon where votes were being counted on June 4. The cops also booked Dinesh Gurav, an ENCORE (poll portal) operator with the Election Commission (EC), for allegedly giving his device to Pandilkar. 

After Waikar defeated Sena (UBT) candidate Amol Kirtikar by a razor-thin margin, the latter wrote to the police seeking a recount of votes. He also stated that he would file an election petition in court for the same. The complainant in the case is Suchitra Krunal Amle Patil, who is an additional assistant election adjudicating officer. She was deployed at the NESCO centre in Goregaon for counting-related work. On June 4, Patil received a complaint that a mobile phone was found inside the centre, which is a strict no-no.