Thane: A court at Kalyan in the district has acquitted Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and former MP Anand Paranjpe -- all three once part of the undivided Shiv Sena -- in a defamation case.
The complainant was late Vasant Davkhare, a senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, who had dragged the Sena leaders to the court over a campaign rally during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.