Maharashtra: Anil Deshmukh injured in stone pelting near Nagpur

In Maharashtra, senior Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader and former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday sustained injuries after some unidentified people attacked his car with stones on the Katol-Jalalkheda Road in Nagpur district.Harrsh Poddar, superintendent of police (SP), Nagpur rural, said Deshmukh’s CT scan was normal and he is being treated for shallow injuries at Alexis Superspeciality Hospital in Nagpur.His son Salil Deshmukh is the NCP (SP) candidate from Katol and the senior leader has been campaigning full time in the constituency.MVA supporters marched to the Katol police station soon after the incident demanding immediate arrest of the assailants.
Senior Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat condemned the attack. “There is no law and order in the district from which the home minister hails. I want immediate intervention from the election commission,” he said. NCP (SP) chief spokespersons Mahesh Tapase too said the election commission must take cognisance of the attack on Deshmukh. “A former home minister is pelted with stones. One has to see if it is politically motivated,” he said.
Anil Deshmukh was a minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government led by Uddhav Thackeray. The senior Deshmukh resigned as Maharashtra Home Minister after following allegations by the then Mumbai Police Commissioner, who accused him of instructing police officers to extort money from hotel and bar owners across the city.Later, Deshmukh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in November 2021 in a money laundering case, and by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in April 2022 on corruption charges. After spending over a year in judicial custody, he was granted bail by the Bombay High Court.