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Bhujbal rakes up Kini murder case in a bid to corner Raj

In 1996, Ramesh Kini, a Mumbai resident, was found dead in mysterious circumstances at Alka Talkies in Pune.

A day after MNS president Raj Thackeray targeted Chhagan Bhujbal for financial irregularities in toll taxes, the NCP minister on Monday raked up the old Ramesh Kini murder case suggesting the state police had not probed the case properly.

In 1996, Ramesh Kini, a Mumbai resident, was found dead in mysterious circumstances at Alka Talkies in Pune. It was alleged that Raj, then in the Shiv Sena, had conspired along with his friend Laxmichand Shah, who was the landlord trying to evict his tenant Kini. The charges of abetment to suicide were slapped against both. However, CBI, which later probed the case, had given a clean chit to Thackeray and Shah.

“I strongly believe the Maharashtra police did not investigate the Ramesh Kini murder case properly,” Bhujbal told reporters.

At a rally in Pune on Sunday, the MNS chief had accused Bhujbal, who is the PWD minister, of corruption in the award of road contracts and toll tax collection. Bhujbal, however, denied the charge.

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