Court stays FIR in MCOCA firing case

Pune: The Bombay high court has stayed an FIR till September 9 registered by the Mundhwa police against seven men in connection with a firing case under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
A division bench of justice S S Shinde and justice N J Jamadar passed the order on July 17 while hearing writ petitions filed by three men arrested in the case.Sachin Pote, a criminal on police record, was accused of shooting at Nilesh Chavan during a birthday party at a restaurant in Mundhwa on the night of June 15, 2018.
The hotel owner, Vishal Modi, registered an FIR on March 4, 2021. The police later arrested Pote and his aides, Ajay Shinde and Amol Chavan, and booked four others. Criminal lawyer Satyam Nimbalkar, appearing for Shinde, told the court that the FIR was registered by Modi and not Chavan. He said Chavan had filed a complaint application with the police on June 16, 2018, saying a fight occurred betweem him and Potebut no bullet was fired.