Nitesh Rane surrenders, despatched in police custody in try to homicide case

Through PTI

MUMBAI: BJP MLA Nitesh Rane on Wednesday surrendered sooner than a courtroom within the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra in an alleged try to homicide case and used to be remanded in police custody until February 4, his attorneys stated.

Nitesh, son of Union minister Narayan Rane, had withdrawn his bail plea from the Bombay Top Courtroom previous within the day.

He therefore surrendered sooner than the Sindhudurg courtroom, stated particular public prosecutor Pradip Gharat.

The prosecution then sought his police remand.

District and extra periods pass judgement on (Sindhudurg) R B Rote had on Tuesday rejected Rane’s bail utility, announcing it used to be “untimely and no longer maintainable”.

The courtroom had additionally held that custodial interrogation of Nitesh Rane used to be essential as probe into the try to homicide case used to be “incomplete.”

The case relates to an alleged assault on Shiv Sena activist Santosh Parab all the way through the campaigning for the Sindhudurg District Co-operative Financial institution elections.

The BJP MLA had claimed that he used to be being centered via the ruling Shiv Sena (which heads the MVA coalition executive in Maharashtra) because it felt slighted via an incident of mocking out of doors the state legislature complicated right here remaining December.

It used to be political vendetta, he had alleged.

A Shiv Sena MLA had alleged that Nitesh Rane made ‘meow meow’ sound to mock minister and Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray on December 23 all the way through the wintry weather consultation.

Nitesh’s father Narayan Rane, a former Shiv Sena chief, is a sour critic of his former celebration and its chief, leader minister Uddhav Thackeray.

Previous on Wednesday, the BJP MLA’s attorney Satish Maneshinde instructed Justice C V Bhadang of the prime courtroom that he wish to withdraw the applying in search of bail.

“The applicant intends to give up and needs to enroll in the investigation. That is even though the applicant nonetheless has 5 extra days of coverage from arrest granted to him via the Excellent Courtroom on January 27,” Maneshinde stated.

Justice Bhadang then allowed the withdrawal.

Nitesh Rane’s pre-arrest bail pleas were rejected via each the decrease courtroom and the HC previous.

The MLA then approached the very best courtroom, which on January 27 requested Maharashtra Police to not arrest him for ten days, and directed him to look sooner than the courtroom in Sindhudurg and search common bail.