NEWS: Another Rane in the news... just outside Goa

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Former Maharashtra CM's house burnt

By Shiv Kumaar, Indo-Asian News Service

Mumbai, Nov 23 (IANS) Police reinforcements including contingents of the
state reserve police were called in after the house of former Maharashtra
chief minister Narayan Rane was torched.

The incident occurred in Kankavli town in Sindhudurg district, 450 km from
here, and was the fallout of local body elections in the area, police said.

According to the state police control room, Rane's house was set ablaze
after his supporters allegedly killed a man identified as Satyavijay Bhise,
who had won the elections to a local council of Kalsuli town.

Bhise's supporters in the Nationalist Congress Party, a partner in the
Congress party-led ruling coalition, immediately hit the streets and
attacked property belonging to members of Rane's Shiv Sena party.

Rane's house was also targeted in the incident that happened Friday night,
police said.

Sindhudurg district, bordering the state of Goa is Rane's the ancestral
hometown. The former chief minister is said to be expanding his hold in the
district, much to the detriment of his rivals from the Congress and the NCP,
observers here say.

Apart from the house, a petrol pump belonging to Rane and some vehicles
parked at his residence also went up in flames. Police vehicles and fire
appliances called to douse the blaze were also torched.

Police say a mob comprising Shiv Sainiks attacked Bhise and his associates.
While Bhise died, three of his associates sustained serious stab wounds.

The police have arrested former Shiv Sena chief of Sindhudurg district Rajan
Krishna Teli.

--Indo-Asian News Service

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