Did Sanjay Raut write Saamna column from jail? ED to question Shiv Sena MP

India

oi-Deepika S

Mumbai,
Aug
08:
Did
Sanjay
Raut
write
Saamna
column
slamming
Governor
from
jail?
That
is
the
question
the
ED
would
be
interested
to
ask
the
Sena
leader
now.

According
to
the
officials,
Raut
cannot
write
columns
or
articles
while
in
custody
unless
he
has
been
granted
permission
by
the
court
for
the
same.

According
to
a
report
by
the
Times
of
India,
Sena
leaders
speculated
that
Saamna
staffers
were
responsible
for
the
weekly
column,
which
featured
Raut’s
byline
and
photograph.

Money
laundering
case:
Sanjay
Raut
to
appear
before
special
court
today

Raut,
in
his
weekly
column
hit
out
at
Governor
Bhagat
Singh
Koshyari
over
his
remarks
that
Mumbai
will
cease
to
be
India’s
financial
capital
if
Gujaratis
and
Rajasthanis
were
excluded.

Slamming
the
ED,
the
column
writes:
“Sugar
factories,
textile
mills
and
other
industries
run
by
Marathi
people
have
been
shut
down
by
ED
and
a
web
of
cases
cast
around
Marathi
entrepreneurs.
The
government
should
talk
about
this
too.”

The
ED
will
produce
Shiv
Sena
MP
Sanjay
Raut,
arrested
in
a
money
laundering
case,
before
a
special
court
in
Mumbai
on
Monday.

Raut,
a
Rajya
Sabha
member,
was
found
to
be
beneficiary
of
Rs
1.17
crore
of
proceeds
of
crime
in
addition
of
Rs
1.06
crore
that
had
come
to
light
earlier,
it
claimed.

The
Shiv
Sena
leader
was
arrested
on
August
1
in
connection
with
alleged
financial
irregularities
in
the
redevelopment
of
the
Patra
Chawl
(row
tenement)
in
suburban
Goregaon.

The
documents
seized
during
the
probe
showed
the
purchase
of
properties
at
Alibaug
in
neighbouring
Raigad
district
by
Raut
involved
substantial
cash
transactions,
the
ED
had
said.

Raut
arrest,
mass
exodus,
scam
taints:
Uddhav
bravado
can’t
hide
party’s
nervousness

As
much
as
Rs
1.08
crore
was
found
in
the
bank
account
of
Sanjay
Raut’s
wife
Varsha
Raut,
the
probe
agency
had
claimed.

Sanjay
Raut,
60,
is
a
close
aide
of
Shiv
Sena
president
and
former
Maharashtra
chief
minister
Uddhav
Thackeray.

Raut
has
denied
any
wrongdoing
and
called
the
ED
case
against
him
as
”false”.