The CBI investigation is now drawing to its "final stages" and Raj, among three or four important leaders left to be interrogated, has been summoned. The CBI chose a Sunday (March 16) to call Raj to its Mumbai headquarters for questioning, in line with the high degree of secrecy it has maintained all through. After receiving the summons, Raj initiated a flu-rry of legal consultations, anticipating a new line of interrogation. After all, the agency and its New Delhi team aren't as well disposed to Maharashtra's ruling family as the state CID which earlier handled the case. For a while, as the CBI team from Delhi returned to base, the Kini case drifted into a list of election issues in a tepid Congress campaign. But Opposition leader Chhagan Bhujbal, who led the attack against the Thackerays, is currently holding fire. "We won't do much more till the CBI comes up with something. We're waiting. This session, anything may happen." Ramesh Kini, a resident of Matunga in north-central Mumbai, was found dead in a Pune theatre on July 23, 1996. His widow Sheila has since led a fight for justice alleging that Kini was murdered after a protracted effort to evict him from his flat. The charges drew in Kini's landlord Laxmikant Shah, son Suman and family friend Raj Thackeray. Two post mortem reports with differing conclusions and a heap of loose ends immersed the case in mystery.