Builder’s son denies links with Mamta Kulkarni

The mystery behind the flats allegedly bought by former Bollywood actress, Mamta Kulkarni is deepening every day. Shadab Patel, son of real estate developer Shabbir Patel, has now denied any links with Kulkarni and alleged husband and drug lord, Vicky Goswami. He has further said that he has been estranged from his father since a decade now.

The development comes a day after Shabbir wrote to Thane police that he had no hand in the deal and further insinuated that his son Shadab had connections with Mamta and Goswami.

Speaking to The Asian Age, Shadab said that his father was leveling false allegations against him in an attempt to wash his hands of the issue. “Previously too, he has tried to drag my name in property deals and in fact, forged my signature too in some cases. I have filed many complaints against him at various police stations,\" he said.

These statements come in the wake of an alleged property deal where Kulkarni is said to have bought houses in a residential complex owned by Shabbir’s Oscar developers. Kulkarni, who is suspected to be Goswami’s wife, had allegedly bought the houses on his behalf. “According to reports, the deals are said to have been made in 1994, when I was 14-years-old. I was born in 1980 and in 1994, I was not legally competent to sign on any paper, let aside making property deals,\" said Shadab,

The legal counsel for Shabbir had recently written to the Thane police alleging that his client did not have any links with Goswami and that he had no criminal antecedents. The letter addressed to commissioner Parambir Singh admitted that while he had sold the flats to Kulkarni in 1994, she was not married at the time; Kulkarni and her mother had bought the flats through cheques and agreements. The letter alleged that Shadab habitually filed ‘false and frivolous’ cases against the former. Replying to this, Shadab said, \"If the cases filed by me were frivolous and false, then they would have been dismissed by now.\"