Meow meow queen says subjected to obscene gestures in custody, police get a court rap

The judge also asked for a medical check-up to be done for Patankar on a daily basis, the report of which should be submitted to court. Patankar was nabbed by the Mumbai police from a private luxury bus travelling from Kudal on April 22 and later remanded in police custody till May 2.

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On Tuesday, the judge was hearing Patankar’s plea against the extension of police remand. “Yesterday, DSP had come. He told me he would throw me off a cliff. He made a lot of dirty hand gestures and yelled at me. He told me I would be beaten up badly,” she said.

The judge observed that “hand gestures” made to Patankar were worse than any third-degree torture to a woman and directed the DSP (Deepak Ghumre) to file a written statement on or before the next date of hearing.

The hunt for Patankar began on March 9 when a police team seized 114 kg of mephedrone, commonly know as meow-meow, from the Satara home of constable Dharmaraj Kalokhe (52), who was attached with the intelligence wing of the Marine Drive police station.

Kalokhe claimed that the haul, worth Rs 22.40 crore, belonged to a Customs official and was given to him by Patankar for safekeeping.

Patankar’s younger son, Satish, was arrested by the Satara police and handed over to the Mumbai police on April 15. He has been charged with transporting 12 kg of mephedrone from his mother to Kalokhe. The drug was later found in Kalokhe’s cupboard and a separate FIR was registered. Meanwhile, the special judge remanded Satish to judicial custody as he had completed 14 days in police custody.

Cops get warrant to arrest jailed drug peddler

The Mumbai police Tuesday got a production warrant authorising it to arrest Manikan Samuel, an alleged drug peddler, in connection with the ongoing investigation against Baby Patankar. The police will arrest Samuel, currently lodged in the Arthur Road Central Jail after being arrested in a drug peddling case in December 2014, on Wednesday and produce him in the Esplanade Court, where it will seek further custody for interrogation. Patankar, during her interrogation, named Samuel as her supplier, the police said.

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