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Ramesh Kadam (politician)

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 21, 2022
Entity authorityQ22279885 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ramesh Kadam was a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party and a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. In August 2015, he was arrested for alleged fraud and embezzlement of funds from a state-run corporation.

He is now incarcerated in the state-of-the-art cell at Arthur Road Jail which was previously constructed for Ajmal Kasab. The cell is reportedly air conditioned.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 21, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q22279885. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ramesh Kadam (politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.