Overview
- Police in Pune registered a new FIR alleging Nilesh and Sachin Ghaywal seized 10 Kothrud flats at gunpoint from 2018 to 2025, booking them under BNS and Arms Act provisions.
- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said the arms licence for Sachin was not issued, noting the police commissioner kept Minister Yogesh Kadam’s appellate order on hold.
- Ajit Pawar directed the Pune commissioner to pursue the strongest action over the allegedly fraudulently obtained passport used by Nilesh to leave India, with steps initiated to cancel it.
- Yogesh Kadam maintained he approved Sachin’s appeal strictly as an appellate authority because no cases were pending on the hearing date, reversing an earlier police rejection.
- Pune Police have invoked MCOCA against Nilesh and his associates in the Kothrud firing cases and transferred the probe to the crime branch, while a Bombay High Court petition challenges the action and reports differ on whether MCOCA applies to Sachin.