The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Pune police not to file its charge sheet against former Maharashtra revenue minister and Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Eknath Khadse in connection with a 2016 Pune land deal case till March.

A division bench of Justice Revati Mohite Dere and Justice P K Chavan gave directions while hearing Khadse’s petition claiming that the ACB had in April 2018 filed a closure report in the case, saying that no substance was found in allegations against him.