Senior NCP leader and MP Padamsinh Patil, arrested for his alleged involvement in the 2006 murder of Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar, spent the night at a police lock-up in Navi Mumbai after a Panvel court remanded him to seven-day CBI custody.
Senior NCP leader and MP Padamsinh Patil, arrested for his alleged involvement in the 2006 murder of Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar, spent the night at a police lock-up in Navi Mumbai after a Panvel court remanded him to seven-day CBI custody.
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According to CBI sources, Patil was lodged at a police station in Navi Mumbai and will be later shifted to the CBI office at Belapur in Navi Mumbai where he would be interrogated.
Patil has been remanded to CBI custody till June 14 for allegedly ordering the killing of Nimbalkar in 2006. The CBI, while seeking Patil's custody, had told the court that the two other arrested accused - Mohan Shukla and Parasmal Jain had claimed that they had been ordered by Patil to eliminate Nimbalkar.
Patil has been booked under section 120 (b) for criminal conspiracy and 302 (for murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The CBI is also likely to record the statement of noted social activist Anna Hazare, against whom Patil had allegedly given out a supari (contract killing sum). Jain in his statement had said that Patil wanted to eliminate Hazare also as he had helped Nimbalkar to expose the scam in sugar factories owned by Patil and his relatives.
The CBI, which had taken over the case last year, has arrested five persons so far - Patil, Jain, Shukla, Dinesh Tiwari and Satish Mandade - for allegedly murdering Nimbalkar and his driver Samad Kazi on June 3, 2006 at Kalamboli in Navi Mumbai.
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