The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has sent a team to conduct searches in former deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal’s properties.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has sent a team to conduct searches in former deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal’s properties. The ACB had filed a fresh case in May 2016 against Bhujbal and 11 others, including four of his family members, for allegedly amassing Rs 203 crore disproportionate to his known sources of income. This is the first search being conducted by the ACB after registering the case.
On Monday morning, a team of ACB officials left to search properties in Nashik, Pune and Lonavla. An ACB official confirmed the same and said, “We have sent a team to conduct searches in certain houses and some properties situated in the three different cities. We have conducted this search in connection with the Rs 203 crore disproportionate assets case involving Bhujbal, which his family members were also named in. The case was registered after officials found that the total assets were beyond the known sources of income.”
An FIR was filed by the ACB in May 2016, in which apart from Bhujbal, his wife Meena, son Pankaj, daughter-in-law Vishakha and nephew Sameer have been named as accused, the official said. Chartered accountants Sunil Naik and Chandrashekar Sarda, hawala operator Suresh Jajodia, directors of Bhujbal’s companies Pravinkumar Jain and Jagdishprasad Purohit, financial advisor Sanjeev Jain and chief MD of Snehal Cooperative Ltd Kapil Puri have also been named in the FIR.
