Police are investigating the precise motive behind the homicide.
Mumbai:
Police on Wednesday slapped the homicide cost towards a person arrested for allegedly mowing down a journalist together with his automotive in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, an official stated.
Several media organisations had demanded a probe into the dying of journalist Shashikant Warishe, claiming he had written towards native land vendor Pandharinath Amberkar, who is alleged to be a supporter of the proposed Ratnagiri refinery venture.
The organisations claimed Amberkar crushed the scribe’s bike below his automotive at a petroleum pump in Ratnagiri district on Monday. Warishe succumbed to the accidents at a Kolhapur hospital on Tuesday.
The accused (42) was arrested below part 304 (Culpable Homicide not amounting to homicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Police have added part 302 (Punishment for homicide) within the FIR towards Amberkar, the official stated. He was remanded in police custody in Rajapur until February 13.
Police are investigating the precise motive behind the homicide.
Earlier, Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Patrakar Parishad members had met Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis and sought a probe into Mr Warishe’s dying.
The Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemical venture, earlier proposed to be constructed at Nanar village in Ratnagiri district in coastal Konkan, was scrapped earlier than the 2019 polls on the insistence of Shiv Sena, the then alliance associate of BJP.
A Union minister had final yr stated establishing a 60-million metric tonne each year oil refinery would be the largest plant on the earth and hinted at its revival.
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