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Recover damages of Pune bandh from Shiv Sena

A Pune-based NGO has written to the commissioner of police urging her to implead Shiv Sena as conspirators and instigators in 13 cases of arson and damage to public property.

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A Pune-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) has written to the commissioner of police, Meeran Chadha Borwankar, urging her to implead Shiv Sena spokesperson and MLC, Neelam Gorhe, and Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray’s personnel assistant, Milind Narvekar, as “conspirators and instigators” in 13 cases of arson and damage to public property during the Pune bandh on December 28, 2010.

The NGO has requested the police to recover damages from the suspects and/ or their political party. The NGO, Navnirman Pratishthan’s president, Vijaykumar Khalatkar, issued the notice on December 21 through his lawyer, Raman Agarwal.

“Public property becomes the target during agitations called by political parties and such instances have increased, causing great loss to public institutions. That the public transport buses are invariably targeted and damaged by stoning or setting them on fire ultimately causes great inconvenience to the public in general,” stated the letter.

On December 28, based on a complaint by inspector Manohar Joshi of the special branch, the Bund Garden police registered a first information report (FIR) against Gorhe and Narvekar under sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 153 (causing enmity between groups) read with section 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

The complaint was lodged after the special branch intercepted telephonic conversations the previous night wherein Narvekar allegedly gave instructions to Gorhe for organising a bandh in Pune to protest against the removal of Dadoji Konddev’s statue from Lal Mahal.

The letter, citing the chargesheet in the case, stated that after the special branch and Shivajinagar police submitted confidential reports to the deputy commissioner of police, apprehending large scale violence, some telephones of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena leaders were tapped.

After the conversation between Gorhe and Narvekar, their party workers allegedly committed arson and stone throwing at various places in the city on December 28 and offences were registered at 13 police stations. But Gorhe and Narvekar were neither named in the FIR nor was the conspiracy section added.

In the Bund Garden case, the police failed to get voice samples of Gorhe and Narvekar despite obtaining a court order. The duo moved the sessions court against this order and the appeal is pending.

“The police can easily get video recordings of Gorhe from news channels for voice sample comparison. Also, Gorhe and Narvekar should be made ‘conspirators and instigators’ in these 13 cases and damages to public properties should be recovered from them and/or their political party,” the letter added.

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