High drama at ED office as Kirit Somaiya submits documents against Pawar Ajit, kin

MUMBAI: There was high drama outside the Enforcement Directorate (ED) zonal office at Ballard Estate on Wednesday when BJP leader Kirit Somaiya arrived to provide additional information against deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.
NCP activists staged a protest demanding status report on complaints filed against four BJP leaders—Union minister Narayan Rane, former home minister for state Kripa Shankar Singh, and former state ministers Vijaykumar Gavit and Babanrao Pachpute.
Rane and Singh were earlier in Congress, while Gavit and Pachpute were in the NCP.
The local police took the NCP protesters in custody and released them after recording the details. Meanwhile, Somaiya submitted some documents related to corruption of Ajit Pawar and his relatives” to the ED. Somaiya had announced about the visit on social media and said that along with the founder farmers of Jarandeshwar Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana (sugar mill), he will meet officials to submit additional evidence against Pawar and his relatives. The ED had recently attached Jarandeshwar sugar mill in the money-laundering case it’s probing in the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank scam.
Shiv Sena MP Bhavana Gawali failed to turn up before the ED on Wednesday, saying she was down with chikungunya. She is being probed in a money-laundering case pertaining to her trust.