India, Sept. 5 -- Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar is at the centre of a huge controversy after a video purportedly showing him rebuking a woman IPS officer over taking action against illegal excavation in Solapur went viral. However, the NCP has clarified that the deputy CM didn't intend to completely stop the action.

The sub-divisional police officer from Solapur, Anjali Krishna, was reportedly taking action against goons behind illegal excavation of the 'murrum' soil, and Pawar was allegedly ordering her not to do so.

"You stop the action and go back to your office. Tell the tehsildar that the action has been stopped on the orders of the deputy CM," he is heard telling Krishna on the phone in the viral video.

In the clip...