"Best Example Of...": Sharad Pawar On Maharashtra Opposition Leaders' Arrests

NCP chief Sharad Pawar speaks a day after his party's Anil Deshmukh walked out of jail on bail after a year of incarceration

Listing the names of leaders from the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in Maharashtra, NCP chief and former union minister Sharad Pawar today said the "best example" of how central probe agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate can be "misused" is the arrest of NCP's Anil Deshmukh, Shiv Sena (Uddhav) leader Sanjay Raut and others with them.

"I will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to prevent anyone going through a similar situation in the future," he added.

He was speaking a day after the release of Anil Deshmukh, a former minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government that was ousted in June in a Shiv Sena mutiny backed by the BJP.

Mr Deshmukh walked out on bail after a year in jail as an accused in a corruption case. Mr Pawar's daughter and party MP Supriya Sule was among leaders who accompanied the 72-year-old to the Siddhivinayak Temple in an open-top jeep before he went home.