The Maharashtra police have arrested Congress strongman and MLA Jaykumar Gore in Satara district in connection with the abduction of an election officer.
Mr. Gore, who represents Mann-Khatav in the Assembly, was taken into custody on Sunday for allegedly kidnapping a cooperative society election officer, S.S. Tayade, in March.
A bedraggled Mr. Tayade, who was abducted from Satara, was found in Amravati district after two days. He lodged a complaint against the MLA.
Mr. Gore’s chequered reputation precedes him. Last year, he, along with four other Congress legislators, was suspended for two years from the Maharashtra Assembly for heckling Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao.
Mr. Gore’s kin are notorious for their penchant for violence and resort to strong-arm tactics to impose their diktat throughout Mann Taluk.
In 2013, an eyewitness to the murder of a Dalit in Satara in 2007 by 12 upper caste villagers, was in turn brutally beaten up along with his wife. The prime suspect in the 2007 murder and the 2013 violence was widely believed to Navnath Kapse, Mr. Gore’s nephew.
In January, the Satara police lodged a case of negligence against Mr. Gore’s brothers in connection with a gelatin stick blast in Mann that killed three labourers and seriously injured five others.
