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Thane: Police have registered a case against former MLA Pappu Kalani and 20 others on charges of forming an unlawful assembly outside a BJP legislator's office and threatening his relative in Maharashtra's Thane district, an official said on Thursday.
The incident took place in Ulhasnagar area on November 20, when the assembly elections were held across the state, he said.
The accused allegedly formed an unlawful assembly outside the office of Ulhasnagar BJP MLA Kumar Ailani and also threatened his sister-in-law, the official from Ulhasnagar police station said.
Based on a complaint from Ailani, an FIR was registered on November 26 against Kalani and others under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 189(2) (unlawful assembly), 190 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) and 351(2) (criminal intimidation), he said.
Ailani last week retained his Ulhasnagar assembly seat by defeating Pappu Kalani's son Omie Kalani of the NCP (SP).
Pappu Kalani has several criminal cases against him, including one of murder in which he has been convicted.