Regd. No. MH/MR/South-160/2012-14 RNI Regn. No. 43675/1985 MUMBAI TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013 32 PAGES `3 Website: www.afternoondc.in
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‘ARE YOU TABLING COMMISSION REPORT THIS WINTER, OR NOT?’
By Philip Varghese
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wo weeks after the Bombay High Court asked the state government to inform whether it would table the Adarsh report in the winter session of the legislature to be held this month in Nagpur, the court again directed the same question to state government after it informed the court that it was not mandatory on the part of the government to table the enquiry commission report. This comes after Yogesh Sagar, a BJP MLA from Kandivli, and former MLA Atul Shah, had filed a petition in the court on November 11. Sagar and Shah argued in their petition that the government was shielding the ac-
Too many controversies surround the Adarsh CHS, starting from the very ground its stands upon. cused in the Adarsh housing society scam by not tabling the findings of retired Justice J.A. Patil Commission. The commission had submitted
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its report to the state government on April 18. The state government had constituted this commission in January 2011 to inquire
into two points. The first was whether the land where the society stands belongs to the Ministry of Defence, and the second was whether politicians and bureaucrats had flouted rules while granting permission to the society. The commission in its interim report had ruled that the land belonged to the state and was not reserved for anybody. The petition had stated, “This court may be pleased to issue a writ of an appropriate nature, including the Writ of Mandamus and/or a direction or an order, directing the respondent – state government, to table the Commission of Enquiry Report concerning Adarsh CHS Ltd, Continued on pg 12 «
WHERE’S THE FILE? Somaiya questions CM over file regarding allotment of land worth `100 crore to film education society going missing
By Prashant Hamine
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Cheer up! The voters haven’t totally rejected you. Though you lost the election, you have successfully retained your deposit.
enior BJP leader Dr. Kirit Somaiya yesterday questioned Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over the missing files related to what he called illegal allotment of plots worth Rs. 100 crore of land in Andheri to BAG Films Education Society belonging to Congress union minister Rajiv Shukla. Speaking to newspersons here at the state party office, he wanted to know whether the file pertaining to the controversial land allotment was lost in the
Dr. Kirit Somaiya Mantralaya fire, or was deliberately misplaced. Somaiya later on handed over the same file documents
sourced by him through RTI to the Chief Minister’s Office. Terming the land allotment as a second Adarsh scam, he said that the allotment to BAG Film Education Society was approved without any proper documentation. Somaiya sought to remind Chavan of his claim that all the files that were lost in the Mantralaya fire have been reconstructed and restored. He said that upon his inquiry with the Revenue Department, each of the officials Continued on pg 12 «
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DUPING VIA LCs Conmen dupe Ratnakar Bank of `15 crore by using fake documents
By Neel Shah
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ith the arrest of three accused in a cheating and forgery case, the Mumbai police has exposed a well organised racket in which the accused, by presenting three forged Letters of Credit (LC), duped The Ratnakar Bank to the tune of nearly Rs.15 crore. Police personnel from MRA Marg police station arrested Shwetal Sakaria, Managing Director of Arihant Chemicals and Resins (I) Pvt Ltd, his partner Ahilesh Shah, along with their aide Himanshu Bhatt. Shwetal’s wife Khushi, father Bhupendra and mother Aruna are yet to be arrested in connection with the case, said the police. According to the police, Shwetal formed a dummy company called Mahavir Enterprises, and his aide Bhatt approached Ratnakar
Shwetal Sakaria, the main accused in the forged LC racket Bank. Subsequently, Bhatt presented the three LCs – made in the name of HDFC Bank – on behalf of Shwetal to the bank and procured nearly Rs.15 crore from them. When the bank approached HDFC bank to encash the LCs after the credit period was over, they were shocked to learn that all the LCs were forged and did not Continued on pg 12 «