On Saturday afternoon, the Election Commission’s flying squad stormed into former Mumbai BJP President Raj Purohit’s office at Cuffe Parade. Purohit had rented a temporary office for election campaigning.

Rajesh Sarode, senior executive magistrate of the flying squad, said, “We were in that area in Cuffe Parade and spotted a poster and some flags of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). As we began investigating, we learnt that the site was actually Purohit’s office. We demanded a permission letter but the people in his office said it was being processed. As they did not have the letter, we seized election paraphernalia from the office.”