Acquitted builder moves HC against Anami Roy, Meeran Borwankar

A Mumbai-based builder who was acquitted by the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court for lack of evidence has now moved high court, seeking action against current director general of police Anami Roy and DG (CID) Meeran Borwankar. Mahendra Agarwal, the petitioner, alleges that he was falsely implicated by Roy and others in the case related to a construction dispute in which gangster Ravi Pujari is allegedly involved. State has filed appeal against the acquittal of Agarwal and six others. Agarwal has relied on the observation made by the lower court that there was not a "grain of evidence" against him. He and others were booked under MCOCA following a complaint filed by Brijlal Tiwari who alleged that Agarwal and his partner Madhukar Musale were pressurising him and other tenants of an old building to consent to a reconstruction project.The project was allegedly being undertaken at the behest of Pujari. Court will hear the petition along with state's appeal against acquittal.