Rohit Pawar accuses Pune civic officials of high-handedness, demands action against errant officers

Pune, Oct 30 (UNI) NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) MLA Rohit Pawar has accused Pune Municipal Corporation officials of acting in a high-handed manner while carrying out an alleged anti-encroachment drive against a woman running a small business in the city. He alleged that the officials were acting under political pressure and intimidating the woman despite questions over the civic body's jurisdiction over the property. In a strongly worded post on X, Pawar claimed that the land in question neither belonged to the municipal corporation nor fell within its jurisdiction, a fact that he said had also been acknowledged by the civic…