India, Oct. 5 -- The bitter war of words between the two factions of the erstwhile undivided Shiv Sena took an ugly turn, with leaders of both parties flinging wild accusations and threatening to sue each other for defamation.

The seeds of the feud were sowed in the ruling Shiv Sena's Dussehra rally on Thursday, where senior Sena leader Ramdas Kadam alleged that Uddhav Thackeray had hidden the death of his father Bal Thackeray for two days in order to take his fingerprints. The inference was that this was done for nefarious purposes.

On Saturday afternoon, Sena (UBT) leader Anil Parab held a press conference to refute the charge against Uddhav Thackeray. "There was a team of doctors present at his bungalow, so how could he have possibly...