Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur

Advocate Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur (Sonawane) is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. She represents the Teosa Assembly Constituency. She belongs to the Indian National Congress.
On 26 August 2015, she was injured along with 11 others when police lobbed tear gas shells, resorted to lathicharge and opened fire in the air to quell an angry mob that had set an MSRTC bus afire after it crushed an 11-year-old schoolboy to death. The incident happened at Mahuli Jehangir.Thakur alleged that she was intentionally injured by police officers with canes who were ordered to do so by one of their chiefs as she tried to stop the mob along with another person. The local police are now investigating who ordered the caning.