Maharashtra BJP legislator Ashish Shelar has demanded a CBI inquiry into the alleged involvement of Shiv Sena leader and state minister Anil Parab in the arrest of Union minister Narayan Rane.

Shelar made the demand while speaking to reporters. Rane was arrested on Tuesday afternoon (August 24) for his remark made during the 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra' of his party the previous day that he would have slapped Uddhav Thackeray over the latter's "ignorance" of the year of India's independence. After his arrest, Rane was taken to Mahad in Raigad district, 165 km from Mumbai, where an FIR was registered against him over the remark. He was granted bail by a court at Mahad on late Tuesday night.