Thane: The UBT Shiv-Sena Rajyasabha MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday claimed that Thane's don Raja Thakur has been given a contract by Eknath Shinde's son Shrikant Shinde to kill him and he wrote letter about the same to Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and also the Thane police chief Jai Jeet Singh.
On Wednesday Raja Thakur's wife advocate Pooja Thakur filed a complaint against Sanjay Raut for calling her husband as a goon at Kapurbawdi police station in Thane.
Pooja Thakur while speaking with the media said, "I have filed a complaint against Sanjay Raut with Kapurbawdi police station. Raut has used derogatory remarks against my husband. Who have given him the power to call my husband a goon."
Thakur further added, "My husband organised a sports on the occasion of Eknath Shinde's and Shrikant Shinde's birthday and Shrikant Shinde being a sport lover visited the location where sports was organised. Raut is just making a baseless allegations."
Thakur added, "I have asked the police to lodge case under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 211 (false charge of offence made with intent to hurt).
Uttam Sonawane, senior police inspector with Kapurbawdi police station said, "We have taken the written application from Raja Thakur's wife advocate Pooja Thakur but no NC or FIR was registered in the case."
Meanwhile, Naresh Mhaske, Shiv-Sena spokesperson from Thane said, " Sanjay Raut is claiming anything as he is not mentally stable and he need to check himself at mental hospital. Raut is doing a baseless allegations. Why don't he told about his sources who informed him about the death threat to the Thane police when they went to record his statement on Wednesday."
