FIRING CASE: COURT TELLS COPS TO LOOK INTO EX-MLA’S ROLE

MUMBAI: The sessions court has directed Nehru Nagar police to investigate the alleged role played by former Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Milind Kamble in connection with the 2016 firing at a construction site manager.

According to the prosecution case, on August 19, 2016, Kamble’s driver Mangesh Waghmare, a resident of Sakharabai Shingare Chawl in Kurla, had fired six rounds from a countrymade pistol at the site manager Anil Laxman Bhise. Four bullets had hit Bhise but he survived the attack. Sessions judge Dr UJ More, while ordering further investigation, observed, “Six bullets were shot near the container/room around 2.30pm. On the day of the incident, after being shot by the last bullet, only Milind Kamble and Gautam Shinde were present, meanwhile, the accused ran away. This is suspicious and needs to be investigated properly.”

Almost five years after the incident, Bhise approached the sessions court pleading to direct the police to investigate Kamble and his bodyguard Shinde’s role in the firing. Bhise alleged that he was attacked by Waghmare on instructions of Kamble, as he was not getting the consent for redevelopment of the chawl where Bhise and Waghmare were residing. It was alleged that Waghmare had used Kamble’s pistol which was in the car at the time of the incident. “It is to be noted that EX-MLA Milind Kamble was not accompanied by the injured complainant at Rajawadi Hospital and Sion hospital. On that count also investigation needs to be carried out,” read the court order.