Pashi case 8212; Now, rival candidate flexes muscles

The provocation was that a booklet of press clippings, some of which mentioned the alleged activities of Kale8217;s friends, and reports of a writ petition filed by a local activist, Mohan Krishnan, naming Kale as a respondent, had been photocopied at the Mahavir Xerox shop.

Krishnan also told Express Newsline that a group of men had virtually laid seige to his building in Malad E since morning, because they suspected he was behind the photocopying of the press clippings. He could not say for sure if theywere Sena men, but he said, 8220;Who else would try to intimidate the colony in this manner?8221;

In fact, Navin Savla of Mahavir Xerox was picked up by the Goregoan police and detained for three hours in the police station. However, whenNewsline contacted both Goregoan and Dindoshi police stations, they denied that any case was registered.

Pashi, the RPI candidate pitted against Kale, is accused of 18 offences, including murder. However, as Newsline reported yesterday, his arrest on August 31 this year, smacks of politics, since the police claimed he was absconding for the last two years. Newsline has photographs of Pasi with local Sena leaders, and with former minister Gajanan Kirtikar.