A day after it emerged that NCP chief Sharad Pawar had written to CM Uddhav Thackeray asking him to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the police action in the Elgar Parishad case in which nine activists were arrested by Pune police for their alleged links with the banned CPI (Maoist), the Amit Shah-led Union home ministry transferred the probe to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

A day after it emerged that NCP chief Sharad Pawar had written to CM Uddhav Thackeray asking him to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the police action in the Elgar Parishad case in which nine activists were arrested by Pune police for their alleged links with the banned CPI (Maoist), the Amit Shah-led Union home ministry transferred the probe to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).