Hours after Mumbai police shot dead Rohit Arya, who held 19 people, including 17 children, hostage in Powai area and threatened to kill them if he was not allowed to speak to former Maharashtra School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar, the Shiv Sena leader has broke his silence.

Kesarkar on Thursday claimed that he had given financial help to Arya, 50, who had been a project director in Project Let's Change initiative run by the education department. He allegedly took money from school students through a website and the department had taken objection to it, the former minister claimed.

Sindhudurg, Maharashtra: On Rohit Arya, who had held 17 children hostage in the Powai area of Mumbai, Former Minister Deepak Kesarkar says, "Rohit Arya had a concept called 'Swachhata Monitor.' He was als

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