'Anguished': Sanap

Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Balasaheb Sanap from Nashik suffered a major embarrassment similar to that which Aam Aadmi Party leader Somnath Bharti experienced while trying to bust an alleged prostitution racket in a hotel on the Mumbai-Agra highway.

According to sources, Sanap who stormed the hotel used abusive language against a couple and accused them of being involved in prostitution.

However later, it turned out that the couple was married and the man was the sarpanch of a village in Chandwad taluka.

Sources said even as the couple was contemplating to register a molestation and defamation case against the MLA, the matter was later settled.

The sarpanch is said to be from the Shiv Sena. The locals had been complaining against immoral activities that were taking place near a college in Panchavati area of the city.

Anguished over the relentless complaints, Sanap accompanied by large number of his supporters barged into the hotel-cumlodge and created ruckus. They even caught hold of the sarpanch and his wife and abused them.

However, the police soon reached there and whisked the couple away. A senior police official said that Sanap should have informed them about any illegal activity at the hotel instead of going to the place himself.