New FIR against woman posing as PMO’s national advisor, transactions of Rs 14.73 cr under scanner

In the FIR, the pistillate stated that Kashmira allegedly made her unfastened a slope relationship for the business. But aboriginal Kashmira and her aides allegedly utilized the slope relationship for transactions of astir Rs 14.73 crore, the FIR mentions.

Police person booked Kashmira, her adjacent subordinate Ganesh Gaikwad and a fewer much aides successful the lawsuit nether sections 170, 320, 465, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 55 (c) of the Information Technology Act.

As stated successful the FIR, the complainant is simply a nonmigratory of Ravet successful Pune. Her hubby works with the Fire Brigade successful Mumbai. In 2019, her sister’s person Anil Waydande had introduced her to Kashmira arsenic a “national advisor” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Waydande said Kashmira tin springiness the complainant a tender for supplying uniforms for schools successful the state, the FIR mentions.

Accordingly, successful November 2019, Kashmira came on with six persons for a gathering with the complainant astatine a edifice successful Satara. Kashmira introduced the six persons arsenic her “team” and presented immoderate documents and quality reports showing that she was moving with the PMO.

Later, arsenic per Kashmira’s instructions, the complainant procured a store Act licence, slope accounts successful the sanction of a steadfast “Indian Supplies”, GST fig successful Mumbai, for the concern of supplying uniforms, the FIR stated.

It further mentions, successful 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 past allegedly gave her a fake tender transcript of Rs 5 crore, carrying details of supplying uniforms to schools successful Pune and Satara and signature of “Deputy Secretary, Government of India”. Kashmira allegedly asked the complainant to put wealth for the tender, which would springiness a nett of Rs 2.5 crore.

But, arsenic stated successful the FIR, successful February 2020, Kashmira allegedly said that tender cannot beryllium fixed to the complainant, due to the fact that her firm’s relationship is not showing large transactions. Kashmira and Waydande past allegedly took the passbook, signed cheques of the slope relationship for making it “strong” by carrying retired large transactions, it is stated.

The FIR mentions that till February 2022, transactions of Rs 14,73,40,485 were done from this account, but the complainant was not fixed immoderate tender for schoolhouse uniforms. Complainant told the constabulary that aft Waydande passed distant successful October 2022, she came to cognize that Kashmira and her aides cheated galore people. But they assured to instrumentality her money, hence she did not record a ailment then.

When contacted, Samir Shaikh, superintendent of Satara police, confirmed that enactment is being taken against Kashmira and different accused successful this case.

Meanwhile, constabulary person launched a probe into the multi-crore fiscal transactions that the accused person done utilizing the slope relationship of “Indian Supplies” firm.

In December 2017, the media had reported astir Kashmira’s “appointment” arsenic nationalist advisor to the PMO. The reports claimed she communicated with National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval via videoconferencing from the Satara District Collector’s office, too talking to different apical PMO bureaucrats.

However, successful December 2022, a Satara-based hotelier Phillip Bhambal filed a constabulary ailment that Kashmira and her subordinate were allegedly cheating radical by falsely claiming she was a nationalist advisor to the PMO.

But the Satara constabulary lodged an FIR connected January 4, 2023 against an “unidentified person” for IPC conception 170 (personating a nationalist servant). And, connected January 10, 2023, based connected Kashmira’s complaint, Satara constabulary filed an extortion FIR against Bhambal and others for allegedly demanding and taking wealth from her pursuing a fiscal dispute.

Aggrieved, Bhambal approached Bombay High Court seeking directions to transportation the probe successful his ailment to CID oregon CBI. Meanwhile, astir 1 and a fractional years aft the FIR was lodged, the Satara constabulary arrested Kashmira and Ganesh, some residents of Satara City, for their alleged engagement successful the offence connected June 19, 2024. The adjacent time itself, some accused were released connected bail by a tribunal successful Satara.

Also their apprehension had taken spot conscionable 2 days aft a abstracted FIR was lodged against them astatine the Bundgarden constabulary presumption successful Pune metropolis connected June 17, for allegedly cheating a Pune based businessman Gorakh Maral (49) of Rs 50 lakh. Maral alleged that claiming to beryllium a nationalist advisor astatine PMO, Kashmira and Ganesh assured to get him a tender for authorities work.

In July this year, the precocious tribunal raised doubts connected the probe by Satara constabulary and had asked the SP to show the probe.

Meanwhile, Kashmira’s connection successful the extortion FIR against Bhambal mentioned she has a master’s grade successful sociology and that a task connected the Centre’s “Make In India” and “Rural Development Project” done by her, on with different students and teachers portion she was astatine Satara’s Chhatrapati Shivaji College astir 2014-15, bagged the archetypal prize successful 2016.