Extra bother is mounting on a city-based Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, as Mumbai Police on Friday filed a recent FIR towards her husband on prices of dishonest and forgery allegedly involving practically Rs 25 crore. The police additionally subsequently performed searches on the IPS officer’s official residence in Colaba, officers instructed The Indian Specific.
The Financial Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police has filed an FIR towards Purushottam Prabhakar Chavan, the husband of an SP-rank IPS officer, as he allegedly duped 20 individuals of Rs 24.78 crore below the pretext of promoting them flats and plots in Prabhadevi, Dadar, Parel, Thane and Pune at concessional charges utilizing his clout in authorities places of work.
EOW officers mentioned that after conducting a due preliminary inquiry for weeks, they bought an FIR filed on the Colaba police station and took over the investigation. In addition to Chavan, different accused named within the FIR consists of Prasad Desai, Sanjay Patil, Ganesh Patil, Deepak Extra, N D Nirmale, Govind Sawant, Shashank Limaye, Yashwant Pawar, assistant sub-registrar and officers from Parel-Sewri stamp registration workplace and others who straight and not directly helped principal offender put together duplicate paperwork.
The FIR was filed on the criticism of Sion-based businessman Kedar Degwekar, 57, who was identified to Chavan since 2019.
In response to the FIR, Chavan defrauded the complainant and different individuals by accepting cash in his account from different accused’s accounts below the pretext of promoting them authorities quota properties (lands and flats) on concessional costs utilizing his clout within the Mantralay and different authorities departments.
To sound real, Chavan pretended to have registered their properties with the sub registrar’s workplace at Thane 5 and Stamp Registration Workplace at Parel-Sewri. The accused took images of the faux paperwork and despatched them to victims pretending to be real and likewise gave them photocopies of the identical, states the FIR.
“Chavan instructed us that we should give cash to him after which he would deposit it with the federal government after which the process of the allotment of home from the federal government quota will probably be performed and we are going to get possession, to which I agreed,” Kedar Degwekar, the complainant, acknowledged within the FIR.
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“Like me the accused accepted cash from 19 different victims and gave them bogus settlement on the market paperwork which had names of official sellers from the federal government quota flats as Prasad Desai, Sanjay Patil, Ganesh Patil, Deepak Extra, N D Nirmale, Govind Sawant, Shashank Limaye and Yashwant Pawar,” Degwekar alleged in his assertion.
The alleged crime came about in the home above Colaba police station, the official authorities residence of Chavan’s IPS officer spouse, claims the criticism. The EOW will quickly be recording the assertion of the IPS officer to examine her position, if any. Chavan is at present in jail as he was arrested by ED prior to now in reference to one other case.
Chavan and different accused have been booked below sections 420 (dishonest), 419 (dishonest by impersonation), 465 (forgery), 467 (forgery of useful safety), 468 (forgery for goal of dishonest), 471 (Utilizing as real a solid doc or digital file), 120 B (prison conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code.
ED first detected irregularities
The irregularities surfaced when the Enforcement Directorate was investigating Chavan’s position in one other case, the Rs 263 crore Earnings Tax Refund (ITR) fraud case.
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Chavan was arrested by the ED on Could 20, 2024 in that case. Earlier than him ED had arrested former Earnings Tax Officer Tanaji Mandal Adhikari, Bhushan Patil, Rajesh Shetty and Rajesh Brijlal Batreja.
The prime accused within the ITR fraud case Adhikari, whom the Central company arrested in 2023 together with others was concerned in fraudulently producing and issuing TDS refunds from the Earnings Tax Division to the tune of Rs 263.95 crore.
Batreja allegedly diverted Proceeds of Crime (POC) of the mentioned ITR fraud to Chavan, who he allegedly prolonged assist to different accused in conserving the proceeds of the crime off the legislation enforcer’s radar.
After Chavan’s position surfaced within the ED’s probe, on Could 19, the ED carried out searches at his and his IPS spouse’s Colaba home and seized a number of property paperwork.
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These paperwork had been of varied properties value crores, together with a number of items of land and residential flats in Mumbai and Thane.
After checking the authenticity of those seized paperwork when ED contacted the individuals talked about as homeowners of the mentioned properties and likewise checked with the federal government departments involved, the ED officers had been shocked to seek out out that paperwork for 10 to 12 properties recovered from Chavan don’t even exist in actuality, the company supply mentioned.
It has been additionally discovered that these paperwork are faux and had been ready by forging the signatures of presidency officers. Later these solid paperwork had been registered as real by means of a registrar.
ED submitted particulars of this dishonest and forgery with the Mumbai police EOW and requested {that a} recent prison case be lodged within the irregularities surfaced throughout their probe.
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The ED reportedly didn’t discover something that factors out the direct position of Chavan’s IPS officer spouse in serving to him. Nevertheless, the company questioned her employees and recorded their assertion to know the way Chavan operated.
ED might now register a recent ECIR on the idea of the predicate offence filed by EOW, and launch a recent monetary probe.
Sources additionally claimed that the IPS officer in query has filed for divorce from her husband on the grounds of psychological cruelty, monetary harassment, incompatibility, husband’s bipolar dysfunction, and his concealment of economic dealings.
