{
  "id": 16616183,
  "title": "Manoj Jarange-Patil ₹500 Crore Audio Clip Row: Maharashtra Police Forms 3-Member SIT, ACP Shailesh Balkawade To Lead Probe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/manoj-jarange-patil-500-crore-audio-clip-row-maharashtra-police-forms",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T14:02:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/manoj-jarange-patil-500-crore-audio-clip-row-maharashtra-police-forms-3-member-sit-acp-shailesh-balkawade-to-lead-probe"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mumbai: The Maharashtra Police have constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the controversial audio clip in which a claim was made that Rs 500 crore was paid to Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange-Patil through Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde. The move follows Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's directions to the Mumbai Police Commissioner to conduct a thorough…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}