Chhagan Bhujbal is presently the Meals and Civil Provides Minister. (File)
Mumbai:
Maharashtra Meals and Civil Provides Minister Chhagan Bhujbal, his son Pankaj, and his nephew Sameer received reduction from a particular court docket as we speak in a corruption case.
The particular court docket allowed the discharge functions of the senior NCP chief and 7 others within the Maharashtra Sadan rip-off case.
The 73-year-old chief and others had sought reduction, claiming that there was no proof in opposition to them within the case.
The Enforcement Directorate had arrested Chhagan Bhujbal and his nephew in a cash laundering case based mostly on the Maharashtra Sadan case. Mr Bhujbal was arrested in March 2016 by the central probe company. He managed to get bail solely in 2018 from the Bombay Excessive Courtroom.
A case was filed in 2015 in opposition to Chhagan Bhujbal and 16 others by the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Regardless of the voluminous cost sheet operating into 1000’s pages filed in 2016, there was no adequate proof to proceed the trial, the NCP chief’s authorized staff claimed.
The corruption case is linked to a 2005-2006 deal that the NCP chief allegedly gave to a agency, when he was the PWD minister.
The ACB had earlier opposed his plea for reduction, saying that Mr Bhujbal and his members of the family had obtained kickbacks from the development agency Ok S Chamankar Enterprises.
In response to the ACB, the contractors had “earned 80 per cent revenue” within the building of Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi, whereas as per the federal government round, such contractors had been entitled to “solely 20 per cent achieve”.
Mr Bhujbal is presently the Meals and Civil Provides and Client Affairs Minister of Maharashtra. He has additionally been the Deputy Chief Minister and Dwelling Minister of Maharashtra.
(With inputs from PTI)
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