Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena has found itself in a tight spot after one of his staunch supporters, who was also previously the mayor of Jalgaon, was arrested along with others for allegedly running a fake call centre to defraud foreigners.

The fake call centre in Jalgaon was being run from a farmhouse, L K Farm, owned by former Jalgaon mayor Lalit Kolhe.

“On September 28, we raided a call centre during morning hours and arrested four people, including the former mayor. They have been remanded to police custody by a local court,” Maheshwar Reddy, Superintendent of Police, Jalgaon, told The Indian Express on Wednesday

Reddy said the police had seized 32 laptops and eight mobile phones from the fake call centre.

”We were told that the call centre was star

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