Overview

• Video from Manpada Road shows workers restraining Prakash ‘Mama’ Pagare as they drape a saree on him and chant party slogans.
• Local leaders named in reports include Kalyan district BJP president Nandu Parab, who defended the act as a response to an insult to the prime minister, alongside Karan Jadhav, Sandeep Mali and Datta Malekar.
• Pagare says he was lured to an eye hospital under the pretext of a building issue and maintains he only forwarded an already-viral morphed clip rather than creating it.
• Congress leaders condemned the incident as an attack on free expression, with Harshwardhan Sapkal alleging caste-based humiliation and signaling action under the SC/ST Act.
• A senior official said Tilak Nagar police received a complaint related to the incident and will examine evidence before deciding on registration or charges, with no FIR publicly reported yet.