India, Dec. 2 -- Milind Yavatkar, an activist and NCP worker, has decided to intervene in a corruption case he had filed against BJP politician Babanrao Gholap years ago, resulting in his conviction by the lower court.

Gholap, who was then the social welfare minister in the Shiv Sena-BJP government formed in 1995, was accused of being involved in the siphoning off of Rs.4.5 crore from three state-run corporations into the bankrupt Awami Mercantile Bank, for which he allegedly received kickbacks. He had to resign in 1999 after allegations of corruption by social reformist Anna Hazare and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in 2014.

Yawatkar said he had complained in 1999 to the state Anti-Corruption Bureau, after which Gholap and ...