The CBI has taken over the investigation into allegations of assault and extortion against Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan levelled by the director of a Jalgaon-based education trust, officials said on Tuesday.
Girish Mahajan
PUNE: The city police are investigating an FIR lodged by a lawyer-cum-director of an education cooperative from Jalgaon, accusing senior state BJP leader and former minister Girish Mahajan and 28 others of conspiracy, extortion, theft, forgery and 14 other criminal charges related to an incident of January 2018.
Prima facie, the case arises from a tussle to gain control over the Maratha Vidya Prasarak Sahakari Samaj, a cooperative organization in Jalgaon. Complainant Vijay Patil is one of its directors and the persons named in the FIR are its office-bearers and members, a police officer, who did not wish to be named, said.