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oi-Madhuri Adnal
New Delhi, Aug 06: Varsha Raut, spouse of incarcerated Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut will seem earlier than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday in reference to the Patra Chawl rip-off case.
Varsha Raut is predicted to be confronted along with her husband and another accused concerned within the case as soon as she deposes earlier than the central company at its workplace in Ballard Property later this week.
Sanjay Raut was arrested by the ED on this case on August 1 and an area court docket on Thursday despatched him to additional custody until August 8.
The ED had earlier informed the court docket that Sanjay Raut and his household obtained “proceeds of crime” price over Rs 1 crore generated out of alleged irregularities within the housing redevelopment venture.
Patra Chawl land case: Sanjay Raut’s spouse Varsha summoned by ED
The 60-year-old Rajya Sabha member is an in depth aide of Shiv Sena president and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. He had denied any wrongdoing and had known as the ED case in opposition to him as “false”.
Previous to his arrest, Sanjay Raut’s brother had stated, “Sanjay Raut has been arrested. BJP is afraid of him and bought him arrested. They haven’t given us any paperwork (concerning his arrest). He has been framed.”
In April, the ED had provisionally hooked up belongings price over Rs 11.15 crore of Varsha Raut and two of associates of Sanjay Raut as a part of its probe.
The hooked up properties are within the type of land held by Pravin M Raut, Sanjay Raut’s aide and a former director of Guru Ashish Building Non-public Restricted, at Palghar, Saphale (a city in Palghar) and Padgha (in Thane district).
The properties additionally embody a flat in Mumbai suburb Dadar held by Varsha Raut and eight plots on the Kihim seaside in Alibaug collectively held by Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar, the spouse of Sujit Patkar, a “shut affiliate” of Sanjay Raut, the ED had stated.
The company is known to have been questioning Sanjay Raut about his “enterprise and different hyperlinks” with Pravin Raut and Patkar and in addition concerning the property offers involving his spouse.
After arresting Pravin Raut in February, the ED had stated he seems to be “performing as a entrance” or in collusion with some influential particular person.
The company had additionally stated Pravin Raut had made funds to sure “politically-exposed individuals”.
PMLA case: Sanjay Raut despatched to ED custody until August 8
Within the Alibaug land deal, aside from the registered worth, “money” funds had been made to the sellers, the company had alleged.
Pravin Raut was arrested by the ED in a probe linked to a Rs 1,034-crore alleged land rip-off associated to the redevelopment of the Patra “chawl” in Mumbai’s Goregaon space. He’s presently in judicial custody.
Guru Ashish Building Non-public Restricted was concerned within the redevelopment of the “chawl”, which had 672 tenants residing in tenements on 47 acres belonging to the Maharashtra Housing Space Growth Authority (MHADA), the ED had stated earlier.
Story first printed: Saturday, August 6, 2022, 9:23 [IST]
