<img title="Hemant Gawande" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2017/feb/Hemant-Gawande.jpg" alt="Hemant Gawande" /> Hemant Gawande
Former state revenue minister Eknath Khadse has faced a major blow from the Bombay High Court for unnecessarily forcing the police to register an FIR in a civil matter, dating back to 1985, between Pune-based whistleblower Hemant Gawande and an agricultural college.
The court stayed the proceedings related to the case after observing that when Khadse had called the Pune police, they had made a station entry about the fact that they were registering the FIR on the instructions of the minister.
A bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Anuja Prabhudesai were hearing a writ petition for quashing the FIR. The bench observed, &ldquo;It is clearly mentioned in the station diary that the FIR was registered only after the minister had called.&rdquo; It further directed Pune&rsquo;s Shivaji Nagar police to stop probing the case as it had been stayed.
However, Gawande is also the one who had filed a police complaint and a petition in the HC against Khadse as the latter had allegedly usurped a plot of Pune MIDC.

Former state revenue minister Eknath Khadse has faced a major blow from the Bombay High Court for unnecessarily forcing the police to register an FIR in a civil matter, dating back to 1985, between Pune-based whistleblower Hemant Gawande and an agricultural college

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