The Mumbai police registered an FIR against unidentified persons on charges of cheating and forgery after recovering more than 4,500 affidavits in support of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction on Saturday. However, so far no one has been arrested. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s faction has alleged that it is a big scam by Thackeray and his faction ahead of the upcoming by-polls. However, the spokesperson of the Thackeray faction claimed that the allegation is baseless. The Election Commission had recently asked both the Shiv Sena factions to submit figures of the members each has. Each faction has to submit the numbers with their affidavits.

Outside Bandra court

The complainant, Sanjay Parshuram Kadam, found the affidavits being made outside Bandra court. In his statement to the police, Kadam said he visited the Bandra Court for some paper work related to his property around 10 days back. Outside Bandra Court he noticed a bunch of affidavits kept outside a shop. Kadam found that two workers outside the shop were signing on the affidavits and affixing the notary seal and stamp on them.