Mumbai: The cross examination of Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Sunil Prabhu in the Shiv Sena MLAs disqualification case ended on Saturday. Prabhu answered a total of 318 questions and his cross examination lasted almost a week.
The Shinde faction lawyers began cross examination of the Shiv Sena’s legislature office secretary Vijay Joshi. On Saturday, the Uddhav faction claimed that the key email sent to Eknath Shinde June 23, 2022, was sent on this official email id which was mentioned in the MLAs address book.The next round ofhearing will begin on December 7 and 8 in Nagpur when the winter session of the state legislature begins. In Nagpur, statements of Shinde faction MLAs Bharat Gogawle, Deepak Kesarkar, Uday Samant, Yogesh Kadam, Dilip Lande and MP Rahul Shewale will be recorded. They will then be cross examined by the Uddhav faction lawyers. With the winter session on, hearings will be conducted in the afternoon.
The Shinde faction had filed an application before Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday seeking an inquiry into what it said was the Thackeray group’s submission of forged and fabricated documents. The Shinde faction’s application also referred to an email sent by the Uddhav faction to Shinde on June 23, 2022, which contained a letter dated June 22, 2022. The letter, which Prabhu first claimed was sent via WhatsApp, but then said it was via email, stated that despite clear notice, Shinde did not care to attend the party meeting and that he had engaged in anti-party activities detrimental to the interests of Shiv Sena. The Shinde faction claimed that on scrutiny of email, which was allegedly issued by some employee working with Shiv Sena to eknath.shinde@gmail.com, it was found that this email ID never belonged to Shinde.
Prabhu submitted the legislature’s address book before Narwekar. Uddhav faction lawyers said that the Shinde faction was showing the record book for the month of January, but the book published in May was not shown. The Uddhav faction claimed that on the very first page, the same email id of Eknath Shinde is given, where the notice was sent via email.
The SC has asked Narwekar to decide cross-petitions of Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde factions seeking disqualification of 54 MLAs by December 31, and the NCP’s plea to terminate the membership of 41 MLAs of the Ajit Pawar group by January 31, all involving alleged infraction of the anti-defection law. On Thursday, the Shinde faction had demanded that Narwekar issue directions to an investigative agency to initiate detailed inquiry with respect to documents tendered in evidence by Uddhav faction.
The Shinde faction lawyers began cross examination of the Shiv Sena’s legislature office secretary Vijay Joshi. On Saturday, the Uddhav faction claimed that the key email sent to Eknath Shinde June 23, 2022, was sent on this official email id which was mentioned in the MLAs address book.The next round ofhearing will begin on December 7 and 8 in Nagpur when the winter session of the state legislature begins. In Nagpur, statements of Shinde faction MLAs Bharat Gogawle, Deepak Kesarkar, Uday Samant, Yogesh Kadam, Dilip Lande and MP Rahul Shewale will be recorded. They will then be cross examined by the Uddhav faction lawyers. With the winter session on, hearings will be conducted in the afternoon.
The Shinde faction had filed an application before Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday seeking an inquiry into what it said was the Thackeray group’s submission of forged and fabricated documents. The Shinde faction’s application also referred to an email sent by the Uddhav faction to Shinde on June 23, 2022, which contained a letter dated June 22, 2022. The letter, which Prabhu first claimed was sent via WhatsApp, but then said it was via email, stated that despite clear notice, Shinde did not care to attend the party meeting and that he had engaged in anti-party activities detrimental to the interests of Shiv Sena. The Shinde faction claimed that on scrutiny of email, which was allegedly issued by some employee working with Shiv Sena to eknath.shinde@gmail.com, it was found that this email ID never belonged to Shinde.
Prabhu submitted the legislature’s address book before Narwekar. Uddhav faction lawyers said that the Shinde faction was showing the record book for the month of January, but the book published in May was not shown. The Uddhav faction claimed that on the very first page, the same email id of Eknath Shinde is given, where the notice was sent via email.
The SC has asked Narwekar to decide cross-petitions of Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde factions seeking disqualification of 54 MLAs by December 31, and the NCP’s plea to terminate the membership of 41 MLAs of the Ajit Pawar group by January 31, all involving alleged infraction of the anti-defection law. On Thursday, the Shinde faction had demanded that Narwekar issue directions to an investigative agency to initiate detailed inquiry with respect to documents tendered in evidence by Uddhav faction.