Congress legislator Nitesh Rane, the younger son of former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane, and his supporters, was arrested on Thursday on charges of abusing, and poured muddy water on an engineer of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), over the poor condition of the Mumbai-Goa highway, at Kankavli in the coastal Sindhudurg district, on Thursday. The engineer was later tied to the bridge with a rope.