The Mumbai Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Thursday recorded Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Praveen Darekar’s statement before Joint Commissioner of Law and Order Satyanarayan Chaudhary.

On January 31, the Maharashtra Home Department set up the SIT to probe into an alleged conspiracy of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) regime to register fabricated cases against Devendra Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde.