Wing commander (retd) Arun Laxman Deshmukh (57), who was allegedly manhandled and threatened by MLA Vinayak Nimhan and his corporator son Sunny Nimhan last week, now claims that police are deliberately not taking serious cognisance of the episode.

According to him, last Sunday, when he was at his plot in Baner to supervise the recently initiated construction of a bungalow, Nimhan and his son arrived at the spot and manhandled him, asking why he had broken the compound wall of the adjacent plot.