Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane has blamed the Shiv Sena over the alleged disappearance of cousin Ankush from coastal Sindhudurg district. Police have registered a case of kidnapping.
Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane has blamed the Shiv Sena over the alleged disappearance of cousin Ankush from coastal Sindhudurg district. Police have registered a case of kidnapping.
Incidentally, it was the Sena which in 2005 had alleged that Rane was behind the disappearance of Ramesh Govekar, a Sena worker. Rane's son Nilesh is pitted against former Union power minister Suresh Prabhu of the Sena in Sindhudurg-Ratnagiri Lok Sabha seat where polling is slated on April 23.
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Alleging that Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut, who is campaigning for Prabhu, is behind the incident, Rane said it was a ploy by rivals to intimidate voters.
Raut has termed the allegations as baseless. Rane is making these allegations as Nilesh is facing defeat, he said. A Sindhudurg police official said Ankush, a farmer, had gone to Kankavli market on April 17 and then took a bus back to his home in Varavde village.
The distance from the bus stop to his house is one-and-a-half kilometres. He never reached, the official said.
After Rane left Sena to join Congress in 2005, the ensuing bypoll, which Rane won, was marked by Sena allegations that Rane was behind disappearance of Govekar. The case was handed over to the CBI, but Govekar has not been traced yet.
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