Eknath Khadse – who resigned last week from the Maharashtra cabinet over multiple allegations of wrongdoing – is likely to be exonerated by the state police. He had been charged for receiving calls from fugitive mob boss Dawood Ibrahim.
A Home Department official, on the condition of anonymity, said that the investigation into the alleged calls made to Khadse’s cell phone from a Karachi-based landline (allegedly registered in the name of Dawood’s wife) is almost over, and the final report may be out in a week.
The Anti-Terrorism Squad or ATS (which probed the allegation) has received all the call data records. So far, nothing significant has come out of the investigations into these call data records.