MUMBAI: Nearly two years after the state government withdrew the general consent granted to the CBI to probe cases in Maharashtra, the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government is in the process of transferring two cases filed in the state-pertaining to alleged leak of confidential information on call recordings of middlemen on transfers and postings and an extortion case against BJP leader Girish Mahajan-to the CBI.
Former home minister Dilip Walse Patil, who was part of the MVA government, expressed shock over the move to entrust the probes to the CBI without assigning any reasons. "I am really surprised. Prima facie, it appears that Shinde and Fadnavis have lost faith in the state law enforcing agencies. Fadnavis himself led the state police for five years when he was the CM,'' Walse Patil told TOI.
