
The city police claimed that the search for Mankar was on, but they could not arrest him even as he appeared before the Bombay High Court along with his bunch of supporters on Tuesday. Mankar's lawyer Ashok Mundargi told the court that Mankar had come from Pune.
While most politicians preferred not to be quoted, Shiv Sena legislator Neelam Gorhe came out in the open and said, “It seems the police are hand-in-glove with the land grabbers in the city as the police have been ignoring the cases being filed against the accused and instead harassing the complainants.”