New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet in the Malegaon Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane murder case. In its chargesheet the CBI alleges that investigations show there was prior enmity between Popat Sinde and Yashwant Sonawne.
The CBI chargesheet also mentions that the Anti Corruption Bureau, Nashik, was investigating a complaint against Sonwane filed by Shinde.
Shinde alleged that Sonawane had sought a bribe of Rs one lakh for the release of an oil tanker seized in Manmad on May 10 May, 2010.
The complaint filed by Shinde is dated August 27, 2010....
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03:21 PM, Oct 11, 2011
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11:44 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Mumbai: Malegaon Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane was set on fire by the petrol mafia in Nashik on India's 61 Republic Day. Sonawane was on his way for a meeting with his assistant and his driver when he noticed tankers and drums of oil at near a dhaba. The officer asked some uncomfortable questions after which the offenders brutally set him on fire. Popat Shinde, one of the main accused, who...
09:31 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Mumbai: Less than five months after the brutal killing of Malegaon Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, all the 10 accused arrested by the police are now out on bail, simply because prosecutors failed to file a chargesheet. This despite the accused being booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act. The incident had attracted nationwide outrage after Sonawane was allegedly burnt alive by the oil mafia in Manmad on...
09:08 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Malegaon Addition DC Yashwant Sonawane was burnt alive by an oil mafia on January 25.
03:54 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Mumbai: The six-week-long Budget Session of the Maharashtra Legislature, which will begin in Mumbai from Monday, is expected to see Government-Opposition face-off on issues such as corruption, murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane and Jaitapur nuclear power project. This will be Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's first budget session after he took over last November following the resignation of his predecessor Ashok Chavan in the wake of Adarsh Housing scam. He...
09:53 AM, Mar 13, 2011
Mumbai: The murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane's and the crackdown on adulteration rackets in Maharashtra has failed to reign in the state mafia cartels. After the oil cartel, now the sand mafia strikes terror in Maharashtra. Newspaper reporter Sachin Kale was threatened with murder by a NCP member Ramsheth Kale, allegedly a part of Pune's sand mafia, for calling up a mining officer to check about permissions for sand...
10:20 PM, Feb 17, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP on Wednesday demanded CBI probe into the murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane at the hands of adulteration mafia. A delegation of BJP leaders led by Eknath Khadse met the Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Wednesday and put forward the demand. Khadse also demanded a white paper on externment cases in recent years. "The local police and bureaucrats are hand in gloves with mafia. It is difficult to...
09:13 PM, Feb 02, 2011
Nagpur: The oil adulteration mafia has attacked policemen yet again in Maharashtra. A kerosene seller along with his men attacked policemen during a search operation in Umred tehsil of Nagpur district of the state on Tuesday morning. The incident happened at Rajurwadi, which is a stronghold of the Pardhi community, under the jurisdiction of Umred police station. A police team under Umred Deputy Superintendent of Police Sudhakar Paladurkar went to...
11:58 AM, Feb 01, 2011
Mumbai: Some of the accused in Yashwant Sonawane murder case have alleged in statements to police that the slain officer had demanded a 'bribe' to settle the matter when he spotted oil adulteration near Manmad on January 25. The police, however, said such counter-accusations are common. The investigating officers have recorded statements of the ten accused who are in police lock-up, while the main accused Popat Shinde's statement is yet...
03:47 PM, Jan 30, 2011
Sangli: There is no respite for honest government officials in Maharashtra who have been facing threats from different mafias operating in the state. Just days after Malegaon Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane was brutally burnt alive, another government servant has been allegedly attacked by the sand mafia in Maharashtra. The official, Srinivas Patil, was attacked for trying to stop sand mining in Sangli. Srinivas alleges that while chasing a truck...
10:12 AM, Jan 29, 2011
New Delhi: The new Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy is mulling the roll out of a fuel marker system to check kerosene adulteration. His ministry, sources say, is falling on the marker supplied by Authentix, a UK based company, the same marker that was at the center of a raging controversy a year back. The Authentix marker, used a year ago, was supposed to be the government’s weapon against the oil...
09:52 PM, Jan 28, 2011
New Delhi/Mumbai: A day after CNN-IBN aired the video allegedly shot by late Additional Collector of Malegaon Yashwant Sonawane in which he documented the operations of the kerosene mafia, Maharshtra's Home minister RR Patil says it is crucial evidence and will be submitted to the court. “The video will be fully examined and based on that next investigation will take place. It can be submitted as evidence in the court,”...
08:08 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Nasik: Just a few days after Malegaon Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane was burnt alive for trying to curb the oil mafia in Maharashtra, CNN-IBN gets access to the exclusive and dramatic pictures that show how oil is being pilfered. The pilferage of fuel was even caught on camera supposedly by Sonawane just days before he was murdered. The video exclusively available to CNN-IBN displayed how the fuel mafias steal...
07:43 AM, Jan 28, 2011
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11:42 PM, Jan 27, 2011
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10:50 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Nashik: A few days after Yashwant Sonawane sacrificed his life gathering evidence against the oil Mafia in Maharashtra, CNN-IBN learns the chain of racketeers runs deep across the state with oil being pilfered at the very first level of its coming into the market. Sonawane was burnt alive in a dingy looking and seemingly insignificant dhabba in Manmad, Maharashtra. Locations such as these are safe heaven for the fuel mafia...
10:02 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Mumbai: About 15 lakh Maharashtra government employees went on strike in Mumbai on Thursday in protest of the brutal killing of Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane in Manmad, Maharashtra. Government employees in Maharashtra held demonstrations to protest the killing of Additional Collector Yashwanth Sonawane - the officer who was burnt to death on Tuesday allegedly by the kerosene mafia. The government servants have demanded better protection, a comprehensive probe and strictest...
08:30 PM, Jan 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday said that the subsidy on kerosene was the reason why the mafia was flourishing, but also said the subsidy will not be reduced, terming it as "politically sensitive". While addressing a press conference over oil adulteration, Union Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy commented on the shocking incident of burning alive of Yashwant Sonwane by a gang of oil mafia. "We learnt the shock and dismay...
03:38 PM, Jan 27, 2011
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11:20 PM, Jan 26, 2011
