<span style="color: #222222;">The Maharashtra Government today said, it has no objection to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) taking over probe into the Elgar Parishad case. The Centre last month transferred the probe in the case from Pune Police to the NIA, a decision which was then criticized by the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress Government in Maharashtra. However, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Sanjay Kumar today said that the State Home Department has no objection to the case being entrusted to the NIA.<br />'' <br />''Last week, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray criticized the Centre's decision, saying the Union Government has all rights to step into the probe, but it should have taken the State Government into confidence before handing over the investigation to NIA. He said, the case was handed over to NIA when NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was demanding a probe into it by a Special Investigation Team (SIT). The case is related to speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave, held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on 31st December, 2017 and the next day's violence near the Koregaon Bhima war memorial in the district.<br />''<br />''The Pune Police arrested Left-leaning activists Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson, Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Shoma Sen, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj and Varavara Rao for alleged Maoist links during the probe.</span><br />