Sanjay Raut summoned in Rs 1,034 cr Patra chawl land scam


New Delhi, Jun 27 (IANS): Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut was on Monday summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a prevention of money laundering case pertaining to the Rs 1,034 crore Patra chawl land scam amid the political crisis in Maharashtra.

The ED has asked Raut to appear in its Mumbai office on Tuesday to get his statement recorded.

Soon after receiving the summon, the Shiv Sena leader took to Twitter to allege that he was being victimised on the instructions of the Centre.

"I just came to know that the ED has summoned me. Good! There are big political developments in Maharashtra. We, Balasaheb's Shiv Sainiks are fighting a big battle. This is a conspiracy to stop me. Even if you behead me, I won't take the Guwahati route. Arrest me," Raut tweeted.

In April, the ED had attached Raut's property in connection with the land scam.

A property worth Rs 9 crore of Raut's associate Pravin Raut and assets worth Rs 2 crore belonging to Varsha Raut, the wife of Sanjay Raut, were attached by the ED.

Pravin had eight parcels of land in Alibaug and a flat registered in the name of Varsha Raut which were attached. The ED had arrested Pravin in connection with the matter.

"We had filed a chargesheet in the matter against Pravin, Sarang Wadhawan and Rakesh Wadhawan of HDIL and Guru Ashish Construction and others were named as an accused in the chargesheet," said an ED official.

The ED came to know during the probe that Pravin allegedly paid Rs 55 lakh to Varsha. This was paid from the bank account of Pravin's wife.

The money was termed as proceeds of crime by the ED.

It was also alleged that the travel expenses of Sanjay Raut were borne by Pravin which included his hotel stay and air tickets.

 

  

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  • mohan prabhu, mangalore/canada

    Mon, Jun 27 2022

    Rauts are in the news; they are sacrificial lambs about to be rauted.

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  • Vinod Kumar, Mangalore

    Mon, Jun 27 2022

    ED, CBI and IT should be pouncing on these 15 MLAs for suddenly by overnight increase in their / family’s bank balance / wealth / assets in hundreds of crores. Is this a digital transfer or cash transfer?. At the same time details about reason for decrease in BJP’s account overnight of such huge amount?!.

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  • Ashok, Mangalore

    Mon, Jun 27 2022

    These people trouble people from all other states in their goonda style once upon a time and it is their pay back time. All are enjoying by collecting money forcibly from poor hawkers and small shop keepers and enjoying without doing anything. They are always ready for 'tod fod' since most of them are unemployed and living on poor people's money.

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  • Alwin, Mangaluru

    Mon, Jun 27 2022

    What are exemption s available

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  • Hussain, Abu Dhabi

    Mon, Jun 27 2022

    1975- Emergency declared; Since 2014 Undeclared emergency going on !! You open your mouth, ED, CBI, IT outside your house ! You speak against the govt, you will be jailed. Hatemongers out on bail . Organised loot legalised Plunder.... So many lakh crores spent on toppling the govts !! But anyone cares?

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  • Roshan, Mangaluru

    Mon, Jun 27 2022

    ED, IT, CBI, like most agencies are witchhunting non-bjp politicians, to push them into silence like it did for Advani or Yudii. For BJP it can force such silence from every BJP policitican, as they come with Savarkar Institute of Training and many non-bjp politicians too have no options but to enroll there. However, there are still a few who could bear the consequences and keep the fight on. For Bhakths it looks like BJP is against corruption. In reality, corruption is getting legalized and growing stronger inside BJP power corridors.

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