Mumbai: Coming down heavily on the Eknath Shinde-led NDA government in the state after Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot dead in Mumbai on Thursday, Congress leader Varsha Gaikwad said that the law and order situation in Maharashtra is deteriorating day by day. Ghosalkar was reportedly shot at by a lone assailant, identified as Mauris Noronha, in the Dahisar area of Mumbai.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. Later, the assailant, Noronha, too, shot himself dead, according to the police. Claiming a total breakdown of law and order under the current dispensation, Gaikwad said, "The law and order situation in Maharashtra is deteriorating day by day.
What is the home minister doing? It is extremely shocking what is happening in Maharashtra. Today in Mumbai's Dahirsar, Abhishek Ghosalkar, a former corporator and the son of senior Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Vinod Ghosalkar, was shot at. Mumbai is not used to this kind of terror on the streets. The Congress leader also recalled the BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad firing case, in which he allegedly opened fire on Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) faction leader Mahesh Gaikwad at Hill Line Police Station in Ulhasnagar.
Meanwhile, the Crime Branch on Friday claimed a rivalry between the victim and his assailant amid the opposition's fury over the killing of Ghosalkar in full public glare in Mumbai's Dahisar. Speaking to ANI, DCP (Crime Branch) Raj Tilak Roushan said, "There was an incident of firing in the jurisdiction of MHB police station in which two persons died. Further investigation by the Crime Branch is underway.
We are also in the process of registering an FIR in the matter. We will also probe if the assailant had a valid licence for the firearm (used for the crime). The matter is being probed from all angles. The officers from the Crime Branch are carrying out the probe. Prima facie, it seems there was some kind of a rivalry between these two and the killing may have been a fallout of the same" the DCP (Crime Branch) added.