On the eve of the essential Maharashtra meeting election 2024, a serious controversy erupted after Ravindranath Patil, a former IPS officer from Pune, on Tuesday levelled severe allegations towards Baramati MP and NCP (SP) chief Supriya Sule, in addition to Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole. The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) shortly latched onto the allegation, releasing purported voice notes, which they declare contain Supriya Sule and Nana Patole in a conspiracy to encash Bitcoins to affect the electoral course of.
BJP leaders alleged that the scheme was geared toward manipulating the elections, elevating questions in regards to the equity and integrity of the polls.
Supriya Sule reacted to the allegations, saying she was “amused” that the get together was keen to “come right down to such a stage”.
The previous IPS officer alleged that the 2 leaders had misappropriated bitcoins from a 2018 cryptocurrency fraud case and had utilized by the identical to fund the continuing Maharashtra meeting elections. Ravindranath Patil stated he is able to assist the investigation.
Chatting with information company ANI, former IPS officer alleged that Amitabh Gupta, then commissioner of police, Pune, and Bhagyashri Nautake, then deputy commissioner of police dealing with the cyber crime investigations had been concerned within the misappropriation of bitcoins, that are ultimately being utilized by the 2 political leaders.
BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi backed the claims throughout a press convention on Tuesday. Trivedi offered three audio clips claiming that they had been proof that Nana Patole and Supriya Sule had been concerned on this “Bitcoin rip-off.”
HT couldn’t independently confirm the authenticity of the audio clips.
Supriya Sule challenged Trivedi to a debate over allegations of a “bitcoin rip-off”.
Taking to social media platform X, Supriya Sule said that she is ready to interact in a public dialogue with any BJP consultant at a time and place of their selecting.
“I deny all of the allegations levelled towards me by Sudhanshu Trivedi. All that is conjecture and innuendo, and I’m prepared for a debate with any consultant of the bjp at a time and date of their selection, in a public discussion board,” Sule posted on X.
In response to those accusations, Supriya Sule has filed a felony grievance with the Election Fee and the Cyber Cell in Pune.
Previous to submitting the grievance, Sule criticised Sudhanshu Trivedi for making “baseless allegations” and accused him of disseminating false info.
“It is appalling that such baseless allegations are made by Mr Sudhanshu Trivedi, but not stunning as it is a clear case of spreading false info, the evening earlier than elections. My lawyer might be issuing a felony and civil defamation discover towards Sudhanshu Trivedi for making outrightly false allegations with an intent to deceive the general public at giant,” Sule posted on X, tagging Trivedi.
