An ex-corporator who had alleged that the Deputy Commissioner of Police is pressuring him to join Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde faction has been externed from Thane and Mumbai suburban district for two years on Friday. The corporator MK Madhavi made this sensational claim in a press conference last week, adding he was also asked for Rs 10 lakh by the officer. According to police, he has been booked for 18 serious offences since 1987, including during externment proceedings in which he has committed two more crimes.

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