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Yashwant Sonawane sought bribe to release oil tanker: CBI

Popat Dattu Shinde (who later died), had filed a complaint against Sonawane with Nashik unit of ACB.

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The main accused in the murder of Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane, who was killed by oil mafia, had alleged the officer sought a bribe of Rs1 lakh for the release of an oil tanker seized in May last year, according to the CBI chargehseet.

The accused, Popat Dattu Shinde (who later died), had filed a complaint against Sonawane with Nashik unit of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). However, ACB was unable to trap Sonawane, then Additional Collector of Malegaon, it said.

Investigations show there was prior enmity between Shinde and Sonawane, the Central agency said. CBI, which took over the probe from Maharashtra Police, filed the 300-page chargesheet against six accused in a court in Manmad near here yesterday.

Sonawane was set ablaze near Manmad on January 25 this year when he tried to stop a group of people led by Shinde, said to be members of the oil mafia, from adulterating kerosene. Shinde, who too had suffered burn injures in the incident, later died in a Mumbai hospital.

Shinde's minor son Kunal, also a suspect, has been sent to a remand home, while two other accused are absconding.

Those chargesheeted, currently out on bail, were booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) and IPC sections related to murder, criminal conspiracy and others.

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