Yashwant Sonawane

• CBI begins probe into Sonawane murder case

  A seven-member team of CBI today launched investigations into murder of Malegaon Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane who was allegedly burnt alive by oil mafia in Nashik district.        The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on April 8 registered a case against 11 persons for burning alive Sonawane on Janua...

• Chavan braces for a tough Maharashtra budget session

  The six-week-long budget session of the Maharashtra legislature will begin from tomorrow, and is expected to see a face-off between the government and the Opposition on issues such as corruption, murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane, and Jaitapur nuclear power project.This will be Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's first budget session ...

• Yashwant Sonawane's killers to be booked under MCOCA

  The killers of Yashwant Sonawane, Additional Collector of Nashik who was burnt alive by the oil adulteration mafia, will be booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).The police moved a Nashik court citing that Sonawane's murder was a conspiracy and a syndicate crime.Under MCOCA, statements recorded in front of an...

• BJP demands CBI probe into Sonawane killing

  Maharashtra BJP today demanded that a CBI probe should be ordered into the murder of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane by oil adulteration mafia.     A delegation of BJP leaders led by Eknath Khadse met the Governor K Sankaranarayanan today and put forward the demand.     Khadse also demanded a white pap...

• Maharashtra CM visits Sonawane family, promises action

  Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan visited late Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane's family to offer his condolences.He assured them that those who killed Sonawane would be punished. Chavan also told the family that the oil mafia was being investigated."We have arrested the accused in this case and the investigations are going on. Thi...

• Proof of why Yashwant Sonawane was killed by Popat Shinde

  Days after the brutal killing of Yashwant Sonawane, evidence has now surfaced to show that the Malegaon Additional Collector was building a case against Popat Shinde, the prime accused in his murder.A report prepared by Sonawane in August 2010, a copy of which is with NDTV, documents that his office seized 4000 litres of kerosene and 3000 litres of...

• Yashwant Sonawane had filed report against Popat Shinde five months ago

  Days after the brutal killing of Yashwant Sonawane, evidence has now surfaced to show that the Malegaon Additional Collector was building a case against Popat Shinde, the prime accused in his murder.A report prepared by Sonawane in August 2010, a copy of which is with NDTV, documents that his office seized 4000 litres of kerosene and 3000 litres of...

• Revenue official beaten by sand mafia

  As more details are emerging on Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane's burning to death by the oil mafia, another government official has allegedly been assaulted but by the sand mafia. Revenue official Srinivas Patil says he was beaten by goons belonging to the sand mafia on the 25th of January when he stopped a tractor carrying sand at Shergaon...

• Raids on oil mafia continue in Maharashtra

  The raids on the oil mafia in Maharashtra, triggered by the murder of Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, continued through the night. In fact the raids are still on in the Kurla area of Mumbai and in Akola district.Nearly 200 people have been taken into custody so far and close to 1250 litres of oil has been seized.The government launched a cr...

• After Sonawane's death, Govt launches crackdown on oil mafia

  As government employees went on a mass protest against the burning alive of Manmad Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, the government launched a crackdown on adulteration dens around kerosene depots across Maharashtra."We have already arrested more than 150 people," Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil said.The crackdown came on a day the Union O...

• Remembering Yashwant Sonawane, Manmad's hero

  Yashwant Sonawane's death is a testimony to his life which he lived with courage, commitment and a strong dedication towards duty.His hometown, Nashik, and his adopted town Malegaon mourn a man, whose personal and public life was marked by caring and honesty.Last Republic Day, 48-year-old Sonawane had stood proudly at the Guard of Honour. On the ev...

• Who is Popat Shinde?

  Popat Shinde has been declared the main accused in the murder of Yashwant Sonawane, the government official who was set on fire by the oil mafia in Manmad, Maharashtra.Shinde was among eight people who poured kerosene over Mr Shonawane when the Additional District Collector tried to take photographs of kerosene being stolen from an oil tanker. Mr S...

• Officer burnt alive in Maharashtra during raids

  An Additional District Collector was set on fire on Wednesday, allegedly by the petrol and diesel mafia, at Manmad in Nashik district, about six hours from Mumbai. Manmad has a massive oil depot, making it the stomping ground of the oil mafia.Yashwant Sonawane, who was in his late forties, had just covered a farmers' protest, and was heading back w...