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Updated June 27th, 2022 at 13:20 IST

Sanjay Raut summoned by ED in Patra Chawl land scam case on June 28 amid political crisis

In a massive development amid the ongoing political crisis in Maharashtra, the ED summoned Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut in a money laundering case.

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In a massive development amid the political crisis in Maharashtra, the ED summoned Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut in a money laundering case. This is in connection with the Rs.1034 crore land scam case which pertains to the redevelopment of the Patra Chawl, sources revealed. He has been asked to appear before the Mumbai office of the central agency on Tuesday. While businessman Pravin Raut was arrested in this case in February, the ED attached 8 land parcels in Alibaug and a flat in Mumbai's Dadar linked to Sanjay Raut on April 5.

Lashing out at the Centre for allegedly indulging in "politics of revenge", Sanjay Raut told the media back then, "I had intimated the Rajya Sabha Chairman that people are trying to topple the Maharashtra government, and the pressure is piling up. We are not amongst those who get scared. Seize my property, shoot me, or send me to jail, Sanjay Raut is Balasaheb Thackeray's follower and a Shiv Sainik, he'll fight and expose everyone. I'm not one to stay quiet, let them jump and dance. The truth will prevail in the coming days."

Sanjay Raut lashing out at Fadnavis following the ED summons shared on Twitter that this new development was a 'conspiracy' by the BJP amid the ongoing Maharashtra political crisis.

Sanjay Raut comes under fire

Raut has come under the scanner of the ED at a juncture when he has been at the forefront of the Sena's tirade against the rebel MLAs. Accusing him of making implicit threats of street violence, the Eknath Shinde camp wrote to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil and DGP Rajnish Seth demanding adequate security cover at their homes. A day earlier, he stoked another controversy by claiming that the souls of the rebels have died by purportedly betraying the Uddhav Thackeray-led party. 

Defending his remark while addressing a press briefing earlier on Monday, Uddhav Thackeray's key aide asserted, "Their bodies are alive, but their soul is dead, it is a way of speaking in Maharashtra. What wrong did I say? I tweeted what Gulabrao Patil said, what he said is correct for all those sitting in Guwahati. How people change their fathers. We are not those who change their fathers, that is what Gulabrao Patil said. Forty years you were in the party, now you quit. I did not insult anyone, I spoke about what happened."

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Published June 27th, 2022 at 13:05 IST

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