In what is viewed as a softening of stance, the Maharashtra government on Thursday informed the Bombay High Court that it will immediately withdraw prohibitory orders against 8 activists banning their entry to the villages where the proposed Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd project is being planned.
The organisations claimed that after Warishe wrote against local land dealer Pandharinath Ambekar, he crushed the scribe's bike under his car at a petrol pump in Ratnagiri district on Monday.