The Solapur police on Wednesday arrested the nephew of Maharashtra’s former Deputy Chief Minister and current NCP MP Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil for ‘assaulting’ a police officer and some constables.
Satyasheel (32), who is the son of Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil’s elder brother Rajsinh Mohite-Patil, and nine of his associates were arrested after they allegedly beat up Assistant Police Inspector Parshuram Korke and some police personnel at Akluj in Solapur district in western Maharashtra late on Tuesday, while the latter were doing night patrol. Satyasheel and his associates, who were returning home, had a run-in with API Korke and other police personnel when the vehicle in which they were travelling, scratched against a police vehicle that was moving in the same direction.
After a verbal altercation, Satytasheel and the police personnel present. Satyasheel assaulted a few police personnel present. learning about the incident, API Korke and two police constables rushed to the scene “Satyasheel and his associates also assaulted API Korke and two other constables who had accompanied him to the spot,” the police said.