Thane, Feb 15 (PTI) The Thane city police late on Wednesday night registered a case of alleged attempt to murder against NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad and seven others following a brutal attack on an Assistant Municipal Commissioner.
Four of the accused had already been arrested, said a police official without disclosing their names.
A case was registered against them under IPC section 307 (attempt to murder), he added.
Nationalist Congress Party activists attacked assistance municipal commissioner Mahesh Aher, in-charge of the anti-encroachment cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation, near the TMC headquarters around 6.45 pm and threatened him, the police official said.
The workers were angry as Aher had filed a police complaint against one Vikram Khamkar and razed unauthorised constructions in Awhad’s constituency, the official added.
Before fleeing from the spot after security guards came to Aher’s rescue, the assailants, some of whom were carrying choppers, allegedly threatened that the next time they will “finish the job,” onlookers said.
Aher was taken to a hospital and given police protection, the official said, adding that probe was on. PTI COR KRK KRK
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