Police on Wednesday slapped the homicide fee in opposition to a person arrested for allegedly mowing down a journalist together along with his automobile in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, an legitimate stated. Several media enterprises had demanded a probe into the loss of life of journalist Shashikant Warishe, claiming he had written in opposition to neighborhood land provider Pandharinath Amberkar, who’s stated to be a supporter of the proposed Ratnagiri refinery project.
The enterprises claimed Amberkar overwhelmed the scribe’s motormotorcycle beneathneath his automobile at a petroleum pump in Ratnagiri district on Monday. Warishe succumbed to the accidents at a Kolhapur clinic on Tuesday.
The accused (42) turned into arrested beneathneath segment 304 (Culpable Homicide now no longer amounting to homicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Police have introduced segment 302 (Punishment for homicide) withinside the FIR in opposition to Amberkar, the legitimate stated. He turned into remanded in police custody in Rajapur until February 13.
Police are investigating the precise purpose in the back of the homicide. Earlier, Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Patrakar Parishad contributors had met Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis and sought a probe into Mr Warishe’s loss of life.
The Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemical project, in advance proposed to be constructed at Nanar village in Ratnagiri district in coastal Konkan, turned into scrapped earlier than the 2019 polls on the insistence of Shiv Sena, the then alliance associate of BJP.
A Union minister had remaining 12 months stated setting up a 60-million metric tonne according to annum oil refinery could be the most important plant withinside the global and hinted at its revival.