Mumbai, Feb. 10 -- NCP (Sharad Pawar group) leader Rohit Pawar on Tuesday claimed that the death of his uncle Ajit Pawar in the Baramati plane crash "could be the result of a conspiracy and not a simple accident".

Addressing a press conference here, Rohit Pawar, who is an MLA, further claimed there was "sufficient reason to suspect sabotage" and asserted that the incident required deeper scrutiny beyond the official version.

During the briefing, Rohit Pawar made a PowerPoint presentation outlining what he described as inconsistencies in the sequence of events surrounding the crash that occurred on January 28.

He said Ajit Pawar was originally scheduled to travel from Mumbai to Pune by road on the evening prior to the incident and that th...