Thane police today claimed to have foiled a conspiracy to murder a BJP leader from Murbad in the district with the arrest of three men.
DCP (crime) Parag Manere said the accused had hatched a conspiracy to kill BJP leader and sitting corporator of the Murbad Civic Council Niteen Telavane.
Telavane had been arrested eight years back for the murder of Bhaskar Chandane, but was acquitted in the case.
Arjun Shelke, a local Shiv Sena leader, wanted to avenge the murder, so he hatched a conspiracy with Bhalchandra Nanu Birhade to kill Telavane, police said.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a farm house at Mhasa village in Murbad tehsil, and seized foreign-made and country-made revolvers, cartridges, choppers and swords, and arrested Bhalchandra Birhade, Sanjay Thorat and Anil Jadhavar. Two others escaped.
Police were looking for Shelake and two others.
The arrested were produced before a magistrate today and remanded in police custody till March 18.
