Anil Deshmukh injured after stones thrown at his car in Maharashtra

Senior Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader and former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday sustained injuries after some unidentified people attacked his car with stones on the Katol-Jalalkheda Road in Nagpur district.
The incident occurred as Deshmukh was returning from a public meeting in Narkhed, where he was campaigning for his son, Salil Deshmukh, who is contesting the Maharashtra Assembly elections as a Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) candidate.
During the attack, a stone shattered the car’s window, striking Deshmukh on the head and causing visible injuries. Visuals from the scene show the former minister bleeding, with glass shards scattered inside the vehicle.
Deshmukh was immediately rushed to a hospital in Katol, where he received medical treatment. The motive behind the attack and the identities of the perpetrators remain unclear.
While Anil Deshmukh is the sitting MLA, the NCP(SP) has fielded his son Salil Deshmukh from the constituency this time. Anil Deshmukh was a minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government led by Uddhav Thackeray.
The senior Deshmukh resigned as Maharashtra Home Minister after following allegations by the then Mumbai Police Commissioner, who accused him of instructing police officers to extort money from hotel and bar owners across the city.
Later, Deshmukh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in November 2021 in a money laundering case, and by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in April 2022 on corruption charges. After spending over a year in judicial custody, he was granted bail by the Bombay High Court.
In July this year, Deshmukh made a sensational allegation against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadavis, accusing the BJP leader of pressuring him into filing fake affidavits against ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and three other MVA leaders to destabilise the government three years ago.
“Three years ago, Devendra Fadnavis asked me to give an affidavit making false allegations against Uddhav Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray, Anil Parab and Ajit Pawar. I refused to do that. That is why the ED and the CBI were sent after me, and I was kept in jail for 13 months,” the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader said.
However, the claims made by Deshmukh were rejected by Fadnavis.