Maharashtra minister Sanjay Shirsat has launched a scathing attack on the state police administration after three youths allegedly pelted stones and hurled glass bottles at his residence in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar around midnight on Thursday.
The minister has levelled serious allegations against the city’s Police Commissioner, accusing him of focusing on his next posting rather than his responsibilities.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, Shirsat, a minister from the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, levelled serious allegations against the city’s Police Commissioner, accusing him of focusing on his next posting rather than his responsibilities. The minister accused senior police officials of neglecting law and order, alleging that the police were more interested in making money and securing lucrative postings than controlling crime. “An attack has taken place at my house. Murders are happening in the city every day. He alleged that a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) reached the spot nearly two-and-a-half hours late, and that this happened only after the Director General of Police (DGP) intervened. Shirsat was also upset that senior police officers did not immediately reach the spot.
The Police Commissioner is only interested in extortion, while drugs are being sold openly,” Shirsat said. He said he tried contacting the Police Commissioner after the incident but could not get through as the latter’s phone was switched off.
