The Satara police have once more booked alleged conwoman Kashmira Sandip Pawar (29), accused of dishonest individuals by falsely claiming to be “nationwide advisor” to the Prime Minister’s Workplace (PMO).
As per the FIR filed in opposition to Kashmira on the Satara metropolis police station on Monday, she allegedly cheated a Pune-based girl by promising to offer her tender for supplying uniforms for faculties in Maharashtra.
Within the FIR, the lady acknowledged that Kashmira allegedly made her open a checking account for the enterprise. However later Kashmira and her aides allegedly used the checking account for transactions of almost Rs 14.73 crore, the FIR mentions.
Police have booked Kashmira, her shut affiliate Ganesh Gaikwad and some extra aides within the case beneath sections 170, 320, 465, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Part 55 (c) of the Info Expertise Act.
As acknowledged within the FIR, the complainant is a resident of Ravet in Pune. Her husband works with the Fireplace Brigade in Mumbai. In 2019, her sister’s good friend Anil Waydande had launched her to Kashmira as a “nationwide advisor” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Waydande stated Kashmira may give the complainant a young for supplying uniforms for faculties within the state, the FIR mentions.
Accordingly, in November 2019, Kashmira got here together with six individuals for a gathering with the complainant at a lodge in Satara. Kashmira launched the six individuals as her “staff” and introduced some paperwork and information studies exhibiting that she was working with the PMO.
Later, as per Kashmira’s directions, the complainant procured a store Act licence, financial institution accounts within the identify of a agency “Indian Provides”, GST quantity in Mumbai, for the enterprise of supplying uniforms, the FIR acknowledged.
It additional mentions, in January 2020, Kashmira and her aides allegedly demanded Rs 5 lakh from the complainant for giving the tender. The complainant paid Rs 2 lakh. Kashmira then allegedly gave her a faux tender copy of Rs 5 crore, carrying particulars of supplying uniforms to varsities in Pune and Satara and signature of “Deputy Secretary, Authorities of India”. Kashmira allegedly requested the complainant to rearrange cash for the tender, which might give a revenue of Rs 2.5 crore.
However, as acknowledged within the FIR, in February 2020, Kashmira allegedly stated that tender can’t be given to the complainant, as a result of her agency’s account just isn’t exhibiting large transactions. Kashmira and Waydande then allegedly took the passbook, signed cheques of the checking account for making it “robust” by finishing up large transactions, it’s acknowledged.
The FIR mentions that until February 2022, transactions of Rs 14,73,40,485 have been completed from this account, however the complainant was not given any tender for college uniforms. Complainant advised the police that after Waydande handed away in October 2022, she got here to know that Kashmira and her aides cheated many individuals. However they assured to return her cash, therefore she didn’t file a grievance then.
When contacted, Samir Shaikh, superintendent of Satara police, confirmed that motion is being taken in opposition to Kashmira and different accused on this case.
In the meantime, police have launched a probe into the multi-crore monetary transactions that the accused have completed utilizing the checking account of “Indian Provides” agency.
In December 2017, the media had reported about Kashmira’s “appointment” as nationwide advisor to the PMO. The studies claimed she communicated with Nationwide Safety Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval through videoconferencing from the Satara District Collector’s workplace, apart from speaking to different high PMO bureaucrats.
Nonetheless, in December 2022, a Satara-based hotelier Phillip Bhambal filed a police grievance that Kashmira and her affiliate have been allegedly dishonest individuals by falsely claiming she was a nationwide advisor to the PMO.
However the Satara police lodged an FIR on January 4, 2023 in opposition to an “unidentified individual” for IPC part 170 (personating a public servant). And, on January 10, 2023, based mostly on Kashmira’s grievance, Satara police filed an extortion FIR in opposition to Bhambal and others for allegedly demanding and taking cash from her following a monetary dispute.
Aggrieved, Bhambal approached Bombay Excessive Court docket in search of instructions to switch the probe in his grievance to CID or CBI. In the meantime, almost one and a half years after the FIR was lodged, the Satara police arrested Kashmira and Ganesh, each residents of Satara Metropolis, for his or her alleged involvement within the offence on June 19, 2024. The following day itself, each accused have been launched on bail by a courtroom in Satara.
Additionally their arrest had taken place simply two days after a separate FIR was lodged in opposition to them on the Bundgarden police station in Pune metropolis on June 17, for allegedly dishonest a Pune based mostly businessman Gorakh Maral (49) of Rs 50 lakh. Maral alleged that claiming to be a nationwide advisor at PMO, Kashmira and Ganesh assured to get him a young for presidency work.
In July this yr, the excessive courtroom raised doubts on the investigation by Satara police and had requested the SP to watch the probe.
In the meantime, Kashmira’s assertion within the extortion FIR in opposition to Bhambal talked about she has a grasp’s diploma in sociology and {that a} venture on the Centre’s “Make In India” and “Rural Growth Mission” completed by her, together with different college students and academics whereas she was at Satara’s Chhatrapati Shivaji School round 2014-15, bagged the primary prize in 2016.
