Key Points
Of these, at least three Ajit Pawar, Chhagan Bhujbal and Hasan Mushrif are facing a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in cases linked to money laundering...
Earlier in the day, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut too alleged that those who joined the Shinde-Fadnavis government were afraid of being sent to jail...
Of the new inductees, Ajit Pawar, now deputy chief minister along with Fadnavis, faces multiple cases including a probe by Maharashtra Polices Economic Offences Wing (EoW) into alleged irregularities in loans sanctioned by Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank...
However, a day after Pawar extended support toBJPs Fadnavis in the aftermath of the 2019 assembly elections, the ACB submitted a report in the Bombay High Court, giving him a clean chit..
The ACB had filed a case in 2015 against Bhujbal and 16 others in the Bombay High Court over alleged irregularities in awarding of contracts of over Rs 100 crore for three projects when Bhujbal was the state PWD minister in 2006...
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