Thane, February 14 Ahead of the mayoral election in the Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation in Thane district, the leader of a local party, which has four corporators, was arrested on Saturday in a case of alleged fraud, police said.
The mayoral election in the Bhiwandi civic body is scheduled for February 20.
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Thane police took former mayor Vilas Raghunath Patil, chief of the Konark Vikas Party (KVA), into custody for his alleged involvement in a 2025 financial fraud case. He is accused of cheating people by promising them houses.
Following his arrest, Patil was produced in a Bhiwandi court, which remanded him in police custody for four days, an EOW official said.
The recent election to the 90-member Bhiwandi-Nizampur civic body resulted in a fractured verdict, with the Congress emerging as the single-largest party with 30 seats, followed by the BJP (22), Shiv Sena (12), NCP (SP) (12), Samajwadi Party (6), Patil's KVA (4), and Bhiwandi Vikas Aghadi (3). One independent candidate also won.
