The police also have seized seven cars, 24 motorcycles and unauthorised liquor during the raid on Patil’s R R Farm House. All the arrested were produced in the court on Sunday and sent to judicial custody till December 31.
The arrested are: Sambhajirao Patil (55), Nagesh Desurkar (26) of Wadgaon, Rajashekhar Bheemappa Patil (34) of Ankalgi and presently staying in Belgaum, Vithal Mahadev Maldar (43) of Gokak, Ganpat Kadolkar (42) of Kangrali B K, Rudrappa Uppar (51) of Belgaum, Ashok alias Yallappa Majjagi (32) of Gokak, Rupesh Ramchandra Patil (34) of Ganeshpur, Prashant Krishna Desai (31) of Gadag, Suresh Basappa Juttannavar (38) of Sampgaon, Mehboob Shabbir Sutar (24) of Gokak, Arun Kempanna Goparde (29) of Gokak, Umesh Ganapati Pavase (35) of Uchgaon, Yashwant Laxman Patil (60) of Kolhapur, Phakirappa Basavanni Kilari (38) of Gokak, Eeranna Basavaraj Changi (28) of Gokak and Mallesh Fakkappa Morkar (38) of Halaga.

The raid was conducted by a team of police officials led by Mr Raman Gupta, Additional Superintendent of Police, Chikkodi.

A case has been registered at Belgaum Rural Police Station.

Briefing about the raid at a press conference here on Sunday, Superintendent of Police Hemant Nimbalkar appreciated his officials who conducted the raid and said former mayor Sambhajirao’s farm house was raided last time by the police in 2005. He said the police were investigating.

From Karnataka
Sambhajirao is the only politician from Karnataka to have made it to the mayor’s post for four terms. Recently, he was elected as corporator in the City Corporation elections.

Also known as ‘king maker’ in City Corporation, Sambhajirao is expected to lead a group of corporators to power this time, as well.

He is certain to become mayor for another couple of terms in the next five years, depending on the reservations to be announced by the government.