Responding to a bunch of video recordings that the opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis had submitted last week, Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil told the Assembly on Monday that Special Public Prosecutor Pravin Chavan, who, along with some politicians and police officers, was accused of plotting to frame BJP leaders in criminal cases, has resigned. The state CID will investigate the matter, said the minister, rejecting the opposition’s demand for transferring the case to the CBI.

Before walking out in protest, the opposition said it will move the court to seek a probe by the Central agency. Last Tuesday, Fadnavis told the house that he had 125 hours of video recordings of Chavan tutoring the police officers, complainants and politicians on framing his party colleagues. He said ex-ministers Girish Mahajan, Jaikumar Rawal, Sanjay Kute, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Chandrakant Patil, Subhash Deshmukh and Chandrashekhar Bawakule were on the target list.