Bhima Koregaon: Maharashtra human rights body summons Pune SP to know status of case against Sambhaji Bhide

The Maharashtra Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has summoned Pune's superintendent of police to know the status of the case against Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence.

The Maharashtra Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has summoned Pune's superintendent of police to know the status of the case against Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence. An advocate from Thane, Aditya Mishra, had approached the commission with a complaint stating that the former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had made a statement in the state assembly stating that the case against activist Sambhaji Bhide would be withdrawn, but after all these years, the case is still on. Lawyer Aditya Mishra quoted news reports of Fadnavis's statement in which he had said that there was no evidence against Bhide. The former CM had said that a woman, who had earlier named Bhide in an FIR, blaming him for the violence, had given a statement to the magistrate that she does not know Bhide, nor has she seen him. She had filed the complaint against him on the basis of what people in Bhima-Koregoan were saying after the January violence. Fadnavis had made this statement on March 27, 2018, in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly while replying to a debate on the law-and-order situation in the state.