Advocate Ashok Sarogi, who is facing arrest in a forgery case, on Thursday handed over his medical report to Azad Maidan police which stated that he has undergone angioplasty.
Advocate Ashok Sarogi, who is facing arrest in a forgery case, on Thursday handed over his medical report to Azad Maidan police which stated that he has undergone angioplasty. The police would now, according to the Bombay high court’s order, send him for medical tests in a government-run hospital and then take a call on his arrest.
According to police officials, the high court has ordered DCP of zone one Mumbai to conduct an inquiry against advocate Ashok Sarogi. In October, the Azad Maidan police had filed an FIR against three lawyers of the Bombay high court for allegedly submitting fake documents in court in order to help three businessmen to illegally acquire agricultural land in Raigad. As Sarogi had applied for anticipatory bail and his bail was pending, the police officials arrested two other advocates Ivy Jacob Tauro and Sohel Kazi.
As the Supreme Court has rejected Sarogi’s anticipatory bail application and has asked him to surrender before the police, he may have no other option but to either surrender or face arrest, said sources.
DCP Ravindra Shisve who conducted the inquiry said, “The role of the lawyers came to light in the high court and they asked me to inquire in the case. After we found that the documents were not authentic, I submitted a report that criminal proceedings be initiated against them. After which the court ordered us to arrest the three advocates.”
The fraud was discovered, after a petitioner Nickee Bagaria discovered her estranged husband Ashish Bagaria and father-in-law Santosh Kumar Bagaria had allegedly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) illegally with a businessman named Vinod Kumar Jhunjhunwala for the sale of eight parcels of land in Raigad over which she held the power of attorney. Nickee submitted to the court while she had previously handed over her power of attorney to Ashok and Santosh Kumar Bagaria, she had revoked it in September 2014. Sarogi had been booked previously for allegedly driving his assistant to attempt suicide while he represented the convicted gangster Abu Salem.
