India, May 14 -- Deepak Mankar, city chief of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) submitted his resignation from the post on Tuesday, a day after Pune police filed a case of forgery against him.

Mankar, along with Raunak Jain and Shantanu Kukde - his former aides - have been named in an FIR alleging that they had forged documents to conceal certain financial transactions, said police.

In his resignation addressed to party chief Ajit Pawar, Mankar denied any wrongdoing and said he was being targeted "by people with vested interests envious of his political success".

"A land deal that took place three to four years ago is being used to level baseless allegations against me. These claims remain unverified, yet efforts are being made to tarni...