Maha Lawyer Satish Ukey booked under MCOCA for filing case against Dy.CM Devendra Fadnavis
Maha Lawyer Satish Ukey booked under MCOCA for filing case against Dy.CM Devendra Fadnavis
Nagpur lawyer and activist Satish Ukey, known for his criticism of PM Modi and the BJP, and as of now languishing in Arthur Road Jail, has been arrested under the MCOCA Act 1999 long with six others for land forgery under the draconian act.
The arrest was made after divisional engineer of the Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT), Pankaj Patil, filed a complaint against them. It was alleged that they had forged documents pertaining to land that was originally owned by one Vitthal Dhawale and later declared excess by the government. Subsequently, it was allotted to NIT, a local urban development authority, and since the 1990s has been owned by the civic authority.
Earlier, on March 31,ED had arrested Satish Ukey and his elder brother Pradip.
Ukey hit the headlines when he lodged complaints with the Election Commission and filed a petition before the local court against former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, as of now
Maharashtra’s Dy.CM
subduing information on his criminal cases in his 2014 election affidavit.
A vocal critic of PM Narendra Modi and the BJP, the Nagpur-based lawyer was also in the news when he raised doubts over the “mysterious” death of Judge B H Loya and made a demand for an SIT probe into it. Justice Loya, while hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, in which Amit Shah was an accused, allegedly died of a heart attack in 2014 in Nagpur, where he attended a wedding.
The six others booked in the case include Satish’s brother Pradip Ukey, his wife, Madhavi, Shrirang Housing Cooperative Society president Subhash Manilal Baghel, Chandrapekhar Namdevrao Mate and two other family members of Ukey, Pekhar Mahadevarao Ukey and Manoj Mahadevarao Ukey.
Commissioner of police Amitesh Kumar informed the media personnel that after getting a formal complaint from the NIT in January this year, the Ajni police had booked Ukey and the others under various sections of cheating, forgery and fraud under the Indian Penal Code. They have now booked them under MCOCA adding that the Nagpur police had registered 13 cases against Ukey and his brothers so far.
Last year, the Enforcement Directorate arrested Ukey and his brother Pradip in a money laundering case of over ₹11.5 crore connected with a land grab case in Nagpur. Both have been in Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai since April 2022.
News Edit K.V.Raman
