Amid turmoil inside Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena Celebration (UBT), the 20-year-old homicide case and its upcoming verdict are within the highlight, doubtlessly splitting factions throughout the Congress and emboldening Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena social gathering.
Among the many six Sena (UBT) MPs who right now resisted the social gathering whip and hinted that they could change sides quickly is Omprakash Rajeninbarkar, a two-time MP from Darashiv in Maharashtra.
Former MLA Rajeninbarkar was on Tuesday awaiting sentencing within the Mumbai Civil and Periods Courtroom for the homicide of his father, Congress chief Pawan Rajeninbarkar, in 2006. The matter was adjourned to June 20 (Saturday) because the particular CBI bench decide is but to write down his judgment.
Om Prakash Rajeninbarkar, one of many six MPs on the Sena (UBT) insurgent record, was absent from a key assembly in Delhi on Thursday. Requested if he had been provided cash to modify to the Shintoku camp, he answered within the adverse, saying folks shouldn’t imagine such rumors.
Rajeninbarkar is reportedly but to signal the letter addressed to Congress president Om Birla asserting that the insurgent Congress social gathering needs to merge with the Shinde Sena. He instructed reporters that he would solely make clear his place after the decision in his father’s homicide case is launched on June 20. He mentioned the ruling was necessary for him and his household.
Omprakash Rajeninbarkar’s father Pavan and driver Samad Kazi had been shot useless in June 2006.
2006 homicide case
On June 3, 2006, Pawan Rajeninbarkar and his driver Samad Qazi had been shot useless of their automobile on the Mumbai-Pune expressway. 9 accused, together with former NCP minister and deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar’s youthful brother Padamsingh Patil, are on trial in a particular CBI court docket on a number of fees together with homicide and felony conspiracy.
Mr Patil, now in his 80s, appeared in court docket on Tuesday. He arrived on the hospital by ambulance and was sitting in a wheelchair. Patil and Pawan Rajeninbarkar are cousins, and Patil is alleged to have deliberate the homicide over a political rivalry.
Two years earlier than his homicide, Patil defeated Pawan Rajeninbarkar by a slim margin of 484 votes within the 2004 Lok Sabha polls and gained the Osmanabad meeting seat, now renamed Darashiv.
The CBI alleged that regardless of the victory, Mr. Patil continued to view his cousin Mr. Pawan as a risk to his political profession and employed contract killers to eradicate him. The CBI additionally claims that allegations of corruption towards Patil, together with the administration of Terna Sugar Cooperative Society, of which Pawan was the chairman, have angered Pawan.
20 yr wait
On Tuesday, Omprakash Rajeninbarkar and his household appeared in court docket. “Our household has been ready for the decision for 20 years and 13 days. My father fought as an unbiased candidate in 2004 and misplaced by simply 484 votes, after misinformation unfold that he had prolonged assist to Padamsinh Patil. My entry into politics was formed by this incident. My beginning as a politician was to show that killing a political opponent doesn’t finish conflicts and {that a} new successor will likely be born,” Rajeninbarkar instructed reporters after the sentencing date was postponed to Saturday.
Lengthy-time supporter of Uddhav
Omprakash Rajeninbarkar, now 42, entered politics in 2009, three years after his father’s homicide, and was elected as an MLA on a Shiv Sena ticket. He was elected to the Congress within the 2019 and 2024 polls and remained with Uddhav Thackeray even when the Sena break up because of Eknath Shinde’s insurrection in 2022.
The Supreme Courtroom has directed a time-limited trial within the Pawan Rajenin Balkar homicide case. A complete of 128 witnesses had been examined, 29 of whom turned hostile. Among the many witnesses had been Rajeninbarkar and his mom Anandibai, who instructed the court docket concerning the threats Pawan Rajeninbarkar acquired and the way the police denied him safety.
One of many accused, Parasmal Jain, has turned approver and the CBI is counting on his testimony detailing the alleged function of every accused, from conspiracy to logistics, surveillance and homicide. The case was earlier investigated by the Navi Mumbai Police and transferred to the CBI in 2008 after Anandibai filed a grievance within the Bombay Excessive Courtroom.
