The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police has recently summoned IPS officer Rashmi Karandikar to question her in connection with two cases filed against her husband Purushottam Chavan for alleged frauds to the tune of Rs 32 crore.
A senior EOW officer told The Indian Express on Thursday that though Karandikar, a Maharashtra cadre IPS officer, was summoned to its office, she did not turn up, and hence they are planning to issue a second summons to her. The EOW is planning to record Karandikar’s statement to check her role, if any, said a source.
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Last month, EOW registered two cases against Karandikar’s husband Chavan for the alleged offences that took place between March 2015 and April 2024.
In the first case, Chavan and 11 others allegedly duped 20 people of Rs 24.78 crore under the pretext of selling them government quota flats in Mumbai, Thane, and Pune at concessional rates using his influence in the government. He and his associates promised them development rights certificates from the respective municipal corporations, the First Information Report (FIR) stated.
In the second FIR, Chavan allegedly swindled a Surat-based businessman and others of Rs 7.42 crore. In this case, Chavan not only accepted money allegedly from the businessman under the fraudulent pretext of selling plots from government quota at a concessional rate, but also claimed to help him grab contracts for supplying T-shirts in Maharashtra Police Academy in Nashik, but never fulfilled his promises.
Chavan is currently in jail after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested him in May last year in a Rs 263-crore Income Tax Refund (ITR) fraud case. He is facing charges of cheating, cheating by impersonation, forgery, forgery of valuable security, criminal conspiracy, etc, the police said.
Both the FIRs against Chavan were registered by EOW after ED shared details of the irregularities they came across while investigating Chavan’s role in the ITR fraud case.
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Last month, EOW searched the Colaba residence of Chavan and his wife and seized certain documents.
Karandikar has reportedly distanced herself from Chavan and has already filed for divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty, financial harassment, incompatibility, her husband’s bipolar disorder, and his concealment of financial dealings.
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