When contacted, Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh said, “We will re-investigate the case and Deepak Mankar will be booked if he is also involved. I had asked additional commissioner Prabhat Kumar and the then deputy commissioner Raghunath Khaire to look into the case.”

Prabhat Kumar told Newsline that the case was properly investigated. “We had arrested the goons along with Shivaji Mankar. The Prabhu family did not mention anything about Deepak Mankar at that time.”

Documents available with Prabhus, however, show that a criminal case was lodged at Shivajinagar police station against Rajiv Prabhu and his three sisters for allegedly assaulting Nilesh Pachange with a sharp instrument. The high court had termed the complaint against the Prabhus as false and fabricated.

The court observed that the medical records of Rajiv showed that he was admitted to the hospital when the alleged assault had taken place as per the police complaint. It also noted that PSI Sandeep Ghorpade, the investigating officer, had filed an affidavit in reply to the anticipatory bail application of the Prabhus. “In this affidavit, no reply has been given to the averments and allegations made by the applicants (Prabhus). The sub inspector has also not submitted the injury certificate of complainant Nilesh Pachange,” the court said in its ruling on April 3.

Warrant against corporator, 3 accomplices

The magisterial court here on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against corporator Deepak Mankar and three others, including builder Sudheer Karnataki, former corporator Datta Sagare and Sadhana Vartak, who allegedly forced a senior citizen, Yeshwant Natu, and his family members to sell their property in Shukrawar Peth in March 2008.

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