EOW books husband of IPS officer for duping 20 people of Rs 25 crore

EOW officials said that aft conducting a owed preliminary enquiry for weeks, they got an FIR filed astatine the Colaba constabulary presumption and took implicit the investigation. Besides Chavan, different accused named successful the FIR includes Prasad Desai, Sanjay Patil, Ganesh Patil, Deepak More, N D Nirmale, Govind Sawant, Shashank Limaye, Yashwant Pawar, adjunct sub-registrar and officials from Parel-Sewri stamp registration bureau and others who straight and indirectly helped main culprit hole duplicate documents.

The FIR was filed connected the ailment of Sion-based businessman Kedar Degwekar, 57, who was known to Chavan since 2019.

According to the FIR, Chavan defrauded the complainant and different radical by accepting wealth successful his relationship from different accused’s accounts nether the pretext of selling them authorities quota properties (lands and flats) connected concessional prices utilizing his clout successful the Mantralay and different authorities departments.

To dependable genuine, Chavan pretended to person registered their properties with the sub registrar’s bureau astatine Thane 5 and Stamp Registration Office astatine Parel-Sewri. The accused took photographs of the fake documents and sent them to victims pretending to beryllium genuine and besides gave them photocopies of the same, states the FIR.

“Chavan told america that we volition person to springiness wealth to him and past helium would deposit it with the authorities and past the process of the allotment of location from the authorities quota volition beryllium done and we volition get possession, to which I agreed,”  Kedar Degwekar, the complainant, stated successful the FIR.

“Like maine the accused accepted wealth from 19 different victims and gave them bogus statement for merchantability documents which had names of authoritative sellers from the authorities quota flats arsenic Prasad Desai, Sanjay Patil, Ganesh Patil, Deepak More, N D Nirmale, Govind Sawant, Shashank Limaye and Yashwant Pawar,” Degwekar alleged successful his statement.

The alleged transgression took spot successful the location supra Colaba constabulary station, the authoritative authorities residence of Chavan’s IPS serviceman wife, claims the complaint. The EOW volition soon beryllium signaling the connection of the IPS serviceman to cheque her role, if any. Chavan is presently successful jailhouse arsenic helium was arrested by ED successful the past successful transportation with different case.

Chavan and different accused person been booked nether sections 420 (cheating), 419 (cheating by impersonation), 465 (forgery), 467 (forgery of invaluable security), 468 (forgery for intent of cheating), 471 (Using arsenic genuine a forged papers oregon physics record), 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code.

ED archetypal detected irregularities

The irregularities surfaced erstwhile the Enforcement Directorate was investigating Chavan’s relation successful different case, the Rs 263 crore Income Tax Refund (ITR) fraud case.

Chavan was arrested by the ED connected May 20, 2024 successful that case. Before him ED had arrested erstwhile Income Tax Officer Tanaji Mandal Adhikari, Bhushan Patil, Rajesh Shetty and Rajesh Brijlal Batreja.

The premier accused successful the ITR fraud lawsuit Adhikari, whom the Central bureau arrested successful 2023 on with others was progressive successful fraudulently generating and issuing TDS refunds from the Income Tax Department to the tune of Rs 263.95 crore.

Batreja allegedly diverted Proceeds of Crime (POC) of the said ITR fraud to Chavan, who helium allegedly extended assistance to different accused successful keeping the proceeds of the transgression disconnected the instrumentality enforcer’s radar.

After Chavan’s relation surfaced successful the ED’s probe, connected May 19, the ED carried retired searches astatine his and his IPS wife’s Colaba location and seized respective spot documents.

These documents were of assorted properties worthy crores, including respective pieces of onshore and residential flats successful Mumbai and Thane.

After checking the authenticity of these seized documents erstwhile ED contacted the radical mentioned arsenic owners of the said properties and besides checked with the authorities departments concerned, the ED officials were amazed to find retired that documents for 10 to 12 properties recovered from Chavan bash not adjacent beryllium successful reality, the bureau root said.

It has been besides recovered that these documents are fake and were prepared by forging the signatures of authorities officials. Later these forged documents were registered arsenic genuine done a registrar.

ED submitted details of this cheating and forgery with the Mumbai constabulary EOW and requested that a caller transgression lawsuit beryllium lodged successful the irregularities surfaced during their probe.

The ED reportedly did not find thing that points retired the nonstop relation of Chavan’s IPS serviceman woman successful helping him. However, the bureau questioned her unit and recorded their connection to cognize however Chavan operated.

ED whitethorn present registry a caller ECIR connected the ground of the predicate offence filed by EOW, and motorboat a caller fiscal probe.

Sources besides claimed that the IPS serviceman successful question has filed for divorcement from her hubby connected the grounds of intelligence cruelty, fiscal harassment, incompatibility, husband’s bipolar disorder, and his concealment of fiscal dealings.