DSK accused of duping investors to Rs 2,091cr

Pune: Pune police on Monday filed its supplementary 1, 600 page chargesheet in the DSK fraud case, in which D.S. Kulkarni, real estate developer is accused of duping thousands of investors to the tune of Rs 2,091 crore. Six more arrested accused were named in the chargesheet.

Nilesh More, assistant police commissioner, Economic Offence Wing, Pune police said, “The investigation is going on and we are finding out more evidences and information of involvement of more people. We have filed supplementary chargsheet of 1,600 pages. We have added names of six more people Shirish Kulkarni, son of DSK, Anuradha Purandare, Vinay Badgandi, Kedar Vanjape, Sai Vanjape and Dhanjay Pachpor.”

All six of them were arrested in May and are lodged in Yerwada jail currently. Earlier in February, police arrested Dipak Kulkarni and his wife Hemanti who are also in Yerwada jail. The Pune police had filed 3,700 pages chargesheet earlier against Hemanti for duping over 33,000 investors. Over 6,700 complaints are filed against DSK.

Last month, four Bank of Maharashtra officials were arrested by police for availing loan to DSK despite cheques given by him were being bounced. He has duped the bank for over 1,000 crores. Later his son Shirish Kulkarni surrendered to Police.