India, March 25 -- In a move to work around the Maharashtra police's refusal to register a criminal case, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) legislator Rohit Pawar has filed a Zero FIR at a Bengaluru police station seeking a murder investigation into the January 28 plane crash that killed his uncle, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, and four others.

A Zero FIR is filed by a police station when it receives a complaint that discloses the commission of a cognisance offence but does not fall under its jurisdiction. In such cases, a Zero FIR is registered and sent to the police station which has jurisdiction over the case.

Ajit Pawar was killed when a Bombardier Learjet 45 aircraft, operated by VSR Ventures Private Limited, crashed near Baramat...