Anna Hazare files protest petition

MUMBAI: Activist Anna Hazare has filed a protest petition in the sessions court against the closure report filed by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police in the multi crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam. In the case, among the accused, are several politicians across parties, including Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Hazare, in his protest petition, said that, in 2016, he had approached the Bombay High Court through a PIL in the matter. In Februar y, 2017, he had filed a complaint at Mata Ramabai Ambedkar Marg police station, but the police had not registered an FIR on it.