Ahead of assembly elections, Swikruti Sharma, wife of encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma, has joined the Shiv Sena at Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Nandanvan bungalow Monday. In 2019 Assembly polls, Pradeep Sharma contested the assembly election from Virar constituency on a ticket of undivided Shiv Sena.
Pradeep Sharma was an accused in the Mansukh Hiran murder case, which is connected to the 2021 Antilia terror threat incident where gelatin sticks were found outside the residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani.
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माजी पोलीस अधिकारी प्रदीप शर्मा यांच्या पत्नी स्वीकृती प्रदीप शर्मा यांनी आपल्या असंख्य कार्यकर्त्यांसह आज शिवसेनेमध्ये जाहीर प्रवेश केला. यावेळी त्यांच्यासह त्यांच्या मुली अंकिता शर्मा आणि निकिता शर्मा यांनीही शिवसेनेमध्ये प्रवेश केला. यावेळी या सर्वांचे पक्षात स्वागत करून… pic.twitter.com/Vx8Rx4HWhI
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In 2021, the BJP had targeted the undivided Shiv Sena over Sharma’s alleged involvement in the Antilia bomb scare case. The National Investigation Agency then arrested him in connection with the Antilia terror threat case and he was granted bail by the Supreme Court in August 2023.