Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday criticised the opposition for questioning the motive over ordering extra cots at Beed police station, where Walmik Karad is being held on an extortion charge in connection with the death of Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, PTI reported.

"The cots were meant for the additional police personnel deployed there," Fadnavis told PTI reporters in Mumbai. "Should they [police] sleep on the floor," he remarked, when asked about an opposition leader's claim that the cots were brought to provide comfort to Karad, a close aide of state NCP minister Dhananjay Munde, PTI cited.