Mumbai, Nov. 13 -- A local court in neighbouring Palghar district on Thursday directed police to register an FIR against former MLA Geeta Jain for slapping a junior engineer of Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation in 2023 during a demolition drive to remove illegal hutments.
As the then sitting MLA of the area, she opposed the drive on the ground that the poor residents there would be rendered homeless just before the monsoon season exposing them to inclement weather.
The court directive was given in response to a private complaint filed by activists of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) based on video evidence that had gone viral showing her slapping the engineer Subham Patil and grabbing his collar.
This was objectionable as even though she was...