Sanjay Raut sent to judicial custody till Aug 22; to be a half of NCP MLAs in Arthur Avenue Penal advanced

In a wide kind on Monday, a undeniable PMLA court docket in Mumbai sent Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut to judicial custody for 14 days, i.e till August 22. As his ED custody became ending at the present time, he became produced earlier than the court docket. Then as soon as more, the ED counsel Hiten Venegaonkar informed the court docket that the central agency doesn’t want his custody anymore. Noting that Raut has no criticism of ill-remedy all over his ED custody, the court docket allowed the utility to allow him home-cooked food and medicines in detention heart. He became sent to the Arthur Avenue Penal advanced the put NCP MLAs Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh are languishing.

Sanjay Raut’s arrest

On the morning of July 31, the ED raided the Bhandup situation of Sanjay Raut in reference to the Patra Chawl land scam, grilled him for several hours and took him to its zonal diagram of enterprise in south Mumbai’s Ballard Estate for extra questioning. Rs.11.5 lakh unaccounted money became recovered from his situation. Sooner than entering the ED diagram of enterprise, he advised the media that it became a “wrong case” and vowed to no longer desolate tract the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray. In a note of team spirit, Thackeray for my half visited his home to satisfy his family members. As per sources, Raut is prone to be grilled in the Pearl scam soon. 

The Patra Chawl land scam

In 2008, the MHADA gave the contract for redeveloping Patra Chawl situated in Mumbai to GACPL, a subsidiary of exact estate agency HDIL. A tripartite settlement became signed between GACPL, MHADA and the tenants’ society to get residences to the folks residing in 672 homes, develop residences for MHADA and promote the final sigh to personal builders. Then as soon as more, the ED claimed that GACPL neither constructed the residences for the tenants as smartly as MHADA. As but every other, it sold the floor home index to 9 private developers for roughly Rs.901.79 crore.

Moreover, the agency moreover gentle Rs.138 crore as the reserving amount for its housing mission known as Meadows. As per the central agency, Pravin Raut, who became a director of GACPL, got roughly Rs.100 crore from HDIL and diverted it to accounts of his close mates, family members and replace entities. The ED alleged that Rs.83 lakh which became a little bit of the “proceeds of crime” became transferred to Sanjay Raut’s accomplice Varsha who purportedly outmoded this money to do away with a flat in Dadar. Furthermore, Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar bought no longer no longer as much as 8 plots of land at the Kihim seaside at Alibaug in Maharashtra.