Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar seeks pre-arrest bail in SRA flats scam case
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar seeks pre-arrest bail in SRA flats scam case
Ex-Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar, today, Monday, 23 January appears before police to seek pre-arrest bail in the SRA Flats Scheme
The Nirmal Nagar police in Bandra on Saturday recorded the statement of ex-Mayor Kishori Pednekar as part of the ongoing investigation into the allegations of acquiring flats built by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) in Worli on forged documents. Apart her, three others have also been named in the FIR.
The FIR was registered by the SRA official, Uday Pingle, on January 15, who alleged that the documents were forged to acquire the flats in the Gomata Janata SRA Society. Post-FIR, the police began the investigation with a special team of officers.
As per Nirmal Nagar police the leave and license agreement
shared between the tenant and the owner has been found to be ‘forged’ as alleged by the complainant.
A source, however, reveal that of all the documents that were scanned and examined, the leave and license agreement, exchanged between two parties, was found to be forged.
The agreement has been signed and sealed by two parties: the licensor and the licensee, who were identified as Sanjay Mahadev Andari and Shaila Prashant Gavas, director of Kish Corporate Service India Pvt Ltd, respectively.
Reportedly, in the ‘agreement’ copy submitted earlier to the SRA in Aug 2012, the licensor was one Shivprasad Tiwari, Secretary of Gomata Cooperative Housing Society, and the licensee is Kishori Pednekar.
The source further adds that there is a huge loophole in both the agreements, thus it is termed as forged in nature. The remaining documents were not found problematic, except the leave and license agreements.
Based on the allegation, sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 479 (property mark), and 34 (common intent) of the IndianPenal Code were added to the FIR.
News Input K.V.Raman
