Latching onto suspension of DCP Saurabh Tripathi, accused of threatening 'angadiyas' using the I-T department's name, Maharashtra BJP MLA Ashish Shelar on Wednesday wondered whether a conspiracy was being hatched in the state administrative services to defame the central agency.

Speaking in the Assembly, the former Maharashtra minister asked whether such a conspiracy was being hatched in the state's administrative services "with someone's blessing".