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    Kirit Somaiya detained at Mumbai home

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    The Mumbai police landed up at the home of BJP leader Kirit Somaiya preventing him from leaving his home on Sunday. The BJP cried foul with state’s party president claiming that Maharashtra was undergoing an ‘undeclared emergency’.

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    The Mumbai police landed up at the home of BJP leader Kirit Somaiya preventing him from leaving his home on Sunday. The BJP cried foul with state’s party president claiming that Maharashtra was undergoing an ‘undeclared emergency’. Somaiya was to leave for Kolhapur by train on Sunday evening in connection with ‘unearthing’ a scam related to minister Hasan Mushrif.

    A huge number of police personnel landed up at the Mulund home of Somaiya to serve him a notice from the Kolhapur administration which had barred from visiting the district claiming it would result in a law and order problem. The Kolhapur administration said the police machinery is going to be busy with patrolling for the Ganesh festivities in the district and hence they would not be able to provide protection to the BJP leader.

    Police officials had blocked Somaiya’s home in Mulund with their vehicles so that the BJP leader could not leave his home. The BJP leader claimed that the move was meant to stop him from pursuing the cases of corruption against the state ministers. “Under what grounds are the Mumbai police saying that I can’t leave my home, the notice by Kolhapur administration says that I can’t enter Kolhapur so how can the Mumbai police stop me roaming in Mumbai. The Kolhapur administration can stop me only if I reach their border not before it.”said Somaiya.The BJP leader said that he was planning to expose several financial irregularities and was supposed to go to Kolhapur to ‘expose’ Mushrif. He also said in the next few days he would be going to Satara to get more information on Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s role in the Jarandeshwar sugar factory.






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