Maharashtra Minister Uday Samant said that Shiv Sena chief and Deputy CM Eknath Shinde personally called corporator Ramesh Mhatre and explained party rules to him. Mhatre was arrested for assaulting doctors at a hospital in Dombivli. Samant said that neither Shinde nor any other Sena leader endorsed Mhatre's actions and that there won't be any interference in the police's proceedings.