Mumbai: 5 held for conspiring to frame NCP leader in false drugs case ANI | Updated: Feb 19, 2021 09:06 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 19 (ANI): Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai Police recently arrested five people for conspiring to plant drugs in a local politician s car and frame him for it.
According to Datta Nalawade Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), ANC, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Secretary Vijay Koli had opposed a local construction and had complained to Police and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) about it, miffing the conspirators. One accused named Abdul Ajij Shaikh, alias Ajju, who was the main conspirator was trying to regularize illegal slums in the Tardeo area of Mumbai but Koli had complained against it. This miffed Abdul and he bribed the other accused to frame Koli in a false drug case. Abdul also had a political rivalry with Koli, said the DCP.