The Bombay High Court on Wednesday quashed two cases against Maharashtra’s former Director General of Police Sanjay Pandey and a lawyer named Shekhar Jagtap pertaining to an alleged conspiracy during the Maha Vikas Aghadi’s tenure to “file false cases” against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Devendra Fadnavis and the Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde, Live Law reported.A division bench of Justices Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Suman Shyam pronounced the verdict. The detailed order is yet to be made public.A businessman named Sanjay Punamiya has alleged that Pandey had reopened a criminal case against him that had been closed in 2016. He claimed that Jagtap forged documents and appeared as a special public prosecutor in the case, although he did not have an official appointment letter, according to Live Law.The criminal case had also reportedly named former Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh. The businessman and the former Mumbai Police chief had been accused of extortion.In August 2024, a first information report was registered against Pandey, Assistant Commissioner of Police Sardar Patil and Inspector Manohar Patil, accusing them of pressuring Punamiya to make allegations against Fadnavis and Shinde, based on which a case could be filed against the two leaders.Several judges of the Bombay High Court had recused themselves from hearing Pandey’s petition seeking to quash the cases, Live Law reported. After the Supreme Court’s intervention, a special bench comprising Chandrashekhar and Shyam was set up.Edited by Sneha.