Woman posing as PMO’s advisor ‘cheats’ Pune industrialist of Rs 14 crore by assuring Ministry of Defence tender

Reacting to the latest ailment against Pawar, R B Maske, Inspector, Satara City constabulary station, said, “Another FIR has been lodged against Kashmira and 3 others, each of whom are presently lodged successful jail. We would again apprehension them to probe their engagement successful the caller offence.”

The Pune-based industrialist has besides named Pawar’s ‘husband’ Ganesh Gaikwad and 2 accomplices successful the First Information Report. The complainant said successful the FIR helium met Pawar successful 2017 aft her interrogation appeared successful media reports wherein she claimed she had been appointed the nationalist advisor to the PMO. Pawar besides allegedly told him she has nonstop interaction with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.

Pawar helped the businessman get backmost dues of astir Rs 2 crore from a company, aft which helium started trusting her. Between 2021 and 2023, she allegedly accepted wealth and golden worthy Rs 14,49,50,163 from the complainant and his spouse by assuring them that she would supply them with authorities tenders for supplying worldly worthy Rs 215 crore to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and atom worthy Rs 197 crore to the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Jammu and Kashmir.

The constabulary said the complainant did not get immoderate tender. After learning that Pawar was arrested by the Satara constabulary successful a cheating lawsuit past month, the Pune businessman lodged the FIR.

Pawar was arrested aft the FIR was filed against her successful Satara for allegedly cheating a Pune-based pistillate by promising to supply her tender for supplying uniforms for schools successful Maharashtra. The pistillate alleged successful her FIR that Pawar made her unfastened a slope relationship for the business. But aboriginal the accused and her aides allegedly utilized the slope relationship for fraudulent transactions of astir Rs 14.73 crore, the FIR stated.

In December 2022, a Satara-based hotelier Phillip Bhambal filed a constabulary ailment stating Pawar and her subordinate were allegedly cheating radical by falsely claiming she was a nationalist advisor to the PMO. The Satara constabulary lodged an FIR connected January 4, 2023, against an unidentified idiosyncratic nether Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 170 (personating a nationalist servant). They besides filed an extortion FIR against Bhambal and others connected January 10, 2023, based connected a ailment from Pawar.

Claiming the FIR to beryllium false, Bhambal approached the Bombay High Court seeking directions to transportation the probe to CID oregon CBI.

Meanwhile, a abstracted FIR was lodged against Pawar and Ganesh Gaikwad astatine the Bundgarden constabulary presumption successful Pune metropolis connected June 17, 2024, for allegedly cheating a Pune-based businessman Gorakh Maral of Rs 50 lakh connected mendacious assurances to get him a tender for authorities work.

Two days later, the Satara constabulary arrested Pawar and Gaikwad successful transportation with the FIR lodged by Bhambal successful January 2023. However, some were released connected bail by a tribunal successful Satara the adjacent day, but arrested again past month.

In July, the Bombay High Court raised doubts astir the probe by the Satara constabulary and directed the superintendent of constabulary to show the probe.