India, May 17 -- Nationalist Congress Party (SP) leader Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar was questioned for six hours on Friday in the defamation and extortion case involving Maharashtra rural development minister Jaykumar Gore.

Officials from Satara police confirmed the development and said the team reached the residence of Nimbalkar and questioned him for almost six hours from 10 am to 2:30 pm.

In the first week of May, Satara police summoned Nimbalkar and 11 others in connection with a case involving a woman, who had levelled harassment charges against Gore but was later arrested for an extortion bid.

Notices summoning Nimbalkar and others were issued on May 1 by the Vaduj police, who are probing the case in which the woman from Satara was ar...