Mumbai, April 7 NCP (SP) leader Rohit Pawar met Maharashtra Director General of Police Sadanand Date on Tuesday regarding the investigation into the air crash that killed then NCP chief Ajit Pawar, and said he was informed that the Zero FIR he had registered has been forwarded to the state CID.
He requested Date to ensure a thorough and unbiased investigation into the January 28 plane crash in Baramati, he told reporters.
He met Date as there was confusion over whether the First Investigation Report he had registered in Karnataka had been formally accepted by the Maharashtra Police or not, said the NCP MLA.
Date told him that the FIR has been sent to the Crime Investigation Department, and the further course of action will be decided after a proper inquiry, said Pawar.
"It seems the FIR hasn't been (yet) accepted," he added.
The investigation into Ajit Pawar's death must examine all angles, including the financial transactions of some persons and other issues raised by social activist Anjali Damania, he further said.
"We want a proper, comprehensive investigation, not a routine inquiry," Pawar said.
The allegation that there was a spike in the financial transactions of self-styled godman Ashok Kharat – arrested in a rape case last month – during the period when the air crash took place, needed to be examined by the investigators, he said.
Earlier, alleging that police in Maharashtra were not ready to register an FIR for alleged negligence in connection with the Baramati air crash, Rohit Pawar last month registered a Zero FIR in neighbouring Congress-ruled Karnataka. Such an FIR can be registered regardless of jurisdiction and then transferred to the appropriate agency.