Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, named in a money-laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate, has resigned as the MLA from Maharashtra’s Baramati, the speaker’s office announced on Friday.
The Mumbai Police had registered an FIR against senior NCP leader and former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and 70 former functionaries in the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam case.
FIR has been filed against Pawar on alleged charges of cheating and forgery, days after the Bombay High Court directed them to file an offence.
Ajit Pawar, a nephew of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, had served as deputy chief minister from November 10, 2010, to September 26, 2014.
A division bench of Bombay High Court Justice S.C. Dharmadhikari and Justice S.K. Shinde held that there was prima facie credible evidence and directed the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) to initiate the proceedings invoking the relevant provisions of the laws.
