'Don't raise your voice': A day after assembly brawl, Maharashtra MLA Rohit Pawar loses cool at Mumbai police station; watch
According to news agency PTI, Pawar and NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad went there to locate an injured party worker, Nitin Deshmukh.
Deshmukh, a close aide of Awhad was allegedly assaulted by supporters of BJP MLC Gopichand Padalkar.
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Following the incident, there was confusion over which police station had taken Deshmukh in for questioning or treatment following which Pawar and Awhad started looking for him.
A video circulated on social media shows Pawar visibly angry, confronting a police officer at Azad Maidan station. In the clip, he is heard saying:
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Don't raise your voice.
If you're not able to speak, don't speak."
Pawar later told reporters at Vidhan Bhavan that a police officer had raised his voice and failed to provide clear information, which led to the argument. 'We only came to ask about our colleague. Instead of helping us, the police were vague and evasive,' he alleged.
An official said the leaders later met Deshmukh at JJ Hospital. He is believed to have suffered injuries during the alleged assault.
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In a strongly worded statement, Rohit Pawar accused the police of acting on political instructions.
'After goons attacked our party worker Nitin Deshmukh in the Legislative Assembly, instead of arresting the goons—who are accused under MCOCA—Nitin Deshmukh himself was arrested. Due to the assault on the spot where he had surgery two months ago, we demanded to meet him to inquire about his condition, but the police made us run around to four or five different police stations for 3 to 4 hours, giving evasive answers and even treating Awhad Saheb disrespectfully with gestures,' he said.
'If the police administration is going to act according to the law, we will cooperate. But what if some police act on political orders? Whom should we seek justice from? If police acting on political orders do not even respect elected representatives, what must be the plight of the common people? There are countless incidents—like that of the elderly woman whose land was grabbed, Gyaneshwari Munde, the Deshmukh family, the Suryavanshi family—where the accusations are against those in power.
Should they expect justice or not?", he added further.
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