As Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar is currently embroiled in a row involving an alleged land scam in Pune, his father defended him Sunday and blamed the sub-registrar who registered the sale deed.

”His father has put forth his stand,” said Ajit Pawar when reporters asked him in his hometown, Baramati, as to why Parth was not coming forward and clearing the air.

Blaming the sub-registrar who registered the sale deed, he said, ”How did the individual in the sub-registrar’s office register the deed? What prompted him to register and do the wrong job? We will come to know this through the probe,” he said.

The State Revenue Department has already suspended sub-registrar Ravindra Taru for alleged irregularities in the registration process of the 44-acre Mahar Wa

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