Plot to implicate Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde in 2016 case, says SIT report

The report states that Panday, who has also served as Mumbai’s police commissioner, had pressured two Thane police officers and two arrested accused to implicate Fadnavis and Shinde in the case, alleging that they had extorted money from builders. Pandey had also exerted pressure on the officers to arrest the two senior politicians in 2021.

Fadnavis, now chief minister heading the BJP-led Mahayuti government, was then leader of the opposition, and Shinde, now deputy chief minister and Shiv Sena chief, was then urban development minister when the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government was in power.

Shukla didn’t respond to attempts by HT to reach out to her, while Panday said, “She can submit any report she pleases. I don’t want to comment.’’