
SEPTEMBER 9: Shiv Sena candidate from the Goregaon Assembly constiuency, Nandakumar Kale, began flexing his muscles today after Express Newsline carried a report showing how RPI-Congress candidate Kashinath Pashi8217;s arrest was politically motivated September 9, 1999.
Alleged supporters of Kale, along with police personnel from the Dindoshi and Goregaon police stations today forced the proprietor of Mahavir Jumbo Xerox at Aarey Road, to close shop, and confiscated some of his material.
The provocation was that a booklet of press clippings, some of which mentioned the alleged activities of Kale8217;s friends, and a writ petiton 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 they were Sena men, but he said, 8220;Who else would try to intimidate the colony in this manner?8221;