Maharashtra PWD Minister and senior Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde this morning met the Nashik police commissioner S Jagannathan and demanded that charges of dacoity slapped against Shiv Sainiks be dropped.
Police have arrested nine persons including Satyabhama Gadekar, chief of party's North Maharashtra women's front, after the Sena workers stormed a meeting of Vijaya Rahatkar, chairman of State Women's Commission, here on March 22.
The meeting had been organised by BJP. Shiv Sena workers were protesting Rahatkar's support for separate Vidarbha and Marathwada.
BJP MLAs Seema Hiray, Devyani Farande and Balasaheb Sanap alleged that Sena workers ransacked the pandal and even snatched chains and purses of the women present there.
Shinde said that Shiv Sena workers were protesting in a democratic way and terming them dacoits was not correct.
Shinde also met the Sena workers who are in judicial custody.
