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NCP leader Sanjay Raut. (file)
Raut told reporters after meeting the 73-year-old NCP leader, “Deshmukh is innocent. Like him, I have also suffered injustice due to misuse of central agencies. Never before have political opponents been treated with such brutality.” “
Shiv Sena’s (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Friday met Nationalist Congress Party leader Anil Deshmukh, who was released on bail a few days ago after spending over a year in jail.
On Tuesday, the Bombay High Court refused to further stay its order granting bail to Deshmukh in a corruption case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), prompting the former state home minister to commit suicide at Mumbai’s Arthur Road on Wednesday. Walked out of jail.
“Deshmukh is innocent. Like him, I too have suffered injustice due to the misuse of central agencies. “Never before have political opponents been treated so brutally,” Raut told reporters after meeting the 73-year-old NCP leader.
Raut was arrested on August 1 in a money laundering case related to the redevelopment of a chawl in suburban Goregaon in Mumbai and was released on bail on November 9.
The court had pulled up the Enforcement Directorate probing the case and termed Raut’s arrest as a “witch-hunt” and “illegal”.
Deshmukh is accused of extorting money from police officers from restaurants and bars in Mumbai when he was the state home minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government.
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