Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on Monday said Director General (law and order) will conduct a probe into police action against independent MLA Ravi Rana, in connection with an incident of ink thrown on the Amravati municipal commissioner by people angry over the removal of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj there last month.

Rana said in the state Assembly that the Amravati police had filed cases against him under IPC Sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 353 (assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty) when he was in Delhi.