Police claimed the activists and lawyers incited people and this led to caste violence in Koregaon Bhima the next day. “When the state government wanted to reinvestigate the case, what was the reason to transfer the case in such a hurry? This (Central) government fears that it will be exposed and (so) the case has been transferred to hide this fact,” Pawar said. Former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, who held the home portfolio when the incident took place, has termed the decision to hand over the probe to NIA as “appropriate”. The NIA has every right to probe issues of national significance,” Fadnavis said.

Source: Indian Express January 26, 2020 00:17 UTC