A group of 5 has been alleged for forging documents to pledge assets of Pratham Bungalow Housing Society in Wakad and for misappropriating funds. Thus a case worth rupees 40.26 crore has been filed against them.
the Wakad police has identified the accused as Suhas Gosavi of Pinnac Kanchanganga near Western mall in Aundh, Raju Bhale of police lines off Dynaneshwar Paduka chowk, Anjali Nivasarkar of Apurvai bungalow in Aundh and Bhalchandra Dev of Wakad and Ishwar Punjabi of Laxmi road.
One Rajesh Bhujbal, a first-class land auditor of cooperative departments has filed a complaint against all of them on Thursday. In 1998, two cooperative societies were formed under the name “Ishan” and “Ankit” and secured 31.7 7 acres of land from the government for 99 years.
Later Pratham Bungalow Housing Society was developed under land by 2001. The complaint stated that between April 2001 and March 31, 2013, conspiracy was being done by accused and knowingly misappropriated funds and misuse assets of the housing society also they cheated the bungalow owners. They illegally forged documents and secured ownership of some flats and common amenities spaces including the housing society office and clubhouse. Later a loan amount of around rupees 30 crore was taken from financial institutes like Tata capital and Suvarnayug Sahakari Bank.
Satish Mane, senior police inspector of Wakad police station stated, "About 181 residents had ownership on the property. Also the developments were done from the funds of joint pool. For over a period of 12 years the accused violated the norms and defrauded the money of society."
Of the five accused 3r builders and other two are office bearers of cooperative societies. The rest of the residents raise the issue with the State cooperative department after which the land alters head a primary investigation. Later a report was submitted to Wakad Cops by Bhujbal and hence a case was filed. Based on this, the accused were booked under Section 420 (cheating), Sec 406 (criminal breach of trust), Sec 34 (common intention) for 467 and 468 (forgery) of Indian penal code. As stated by Mane the cases were filed on prima facie details made available by the auditor and no one has been arrested till now. Action will be taken after a detailed enquiry.
Courtesy/By: Renu Kathale
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17 Jun 2019
