Minister denies role in attack

The minister said the allegations against him were baseless, politically motivated and made with an intention to defame him.

The 41-year-old organising secretary of Mumbai Pradesh Congress Committee, Pandurang Sawant, was beaten up by six persons who are alleged to be supporters of Khan after the conclusion of the joint district Congress meeting on Friday evening. However, while Sawant had said that he saw Khan standing at the main gate of the Manav Seva Sangh Hall, where the meeting was held, the minister counter-argued that he was in fact on his way to attend a meeting at Mantralaya on Friday evening.

However, Sawant has filed an FIR at Sion police station against the six unidentified men who assaulted him.