Former Congress MP Nilesh Rane facing charges of kidnapping and assaulting a party worker, surrendered to the Maharashtra police at Chiplun in Ratnagiri district on Friday.
He was taken for a medical examination after he surrendered.
The eldest son of Congress’ Konkan strongman Narayan Rane, the younger Rane was directed to turn himself in after the Bombay High Court quashed his anticipatory bail plea.
He had alleged that all charges against him were “politically motivated”.
Mr. Nilesh Rane has been accused of kidnapping and beating up Sandeep Sawant, who headed the Congress unit in Chiplun taluk. The incident occurred last month when Mr. Sawant failed to turn up for a rally on the issue of Maratha reservation organised by Mr. Rane, claiming that his mother was unwell.
‘Locked up and beaten’Incensed at this supposed “insubordination”, Mr. Rane and his bodyguards allegedly barged into Mr. Sawant’s house later that night and forcibly took him away in their car. They reached Mumbai and drove till Andheri, where they locked Mr. Sawant up inside the Sindhudurg Bhavan.
The gang later beat up Mr. Sawant, who filed a complaint with the Thane police.
An FIR was registered against Mr. Rane and four others, including his personal assistant Tushar Panchal and bodyguard Manish Singh, under sections 323 (assault), 341 (wrongful restraint) 363 (kidnapping) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The case was later transferred to the Chiplun police station as the incident took place there.
