Sanjay Pardeshi has given city cops several sleepless nights. The 51-year-old had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, threatening to immolate himself in front of the PM, upon his visit to the city. He alleged he was doing this because the BMC had meted out ‘injustice’ to him on the instructions of a BJP legislator over an encroached plot in Juhu. He was finally detained yesterday, hours before the PM’s arrival.

Sanjay Pardeshi has been in the limelight over the encroachment of a one-acre plot in Juhu’s Ritambara College area