Sena’s Sanjay Raut Arrested After Questioning, Raids In Land Scam Case: Report

“Sanjay Raut has been arrested. BJP is afraid of him and acquired him arrested. They have not given us any doc (relating to his arrest). He has been framed. He will likely be produced in courtroom at 11.30 am,” the Sena MP’s brother Sunil Raut mentioned, information company ANI reported.

Enforcement Directorate officers had searched Mr Raut’s residence for essentially the most a part of Sunday after he refused to look for questioning regardless of being summoned twice.

The probe company staff reached the house of the 60-year-old Sena MP at 7 am on Sunday. However Mr Raut was taken away to the Enforcement Directorate workplace solely within the night.

The investigators need to query Mr Raut in reference to the re-development of a chawl in Mumbai and associated transactions involving his spouse and shut associates.

The Rajya Sabha MP of the Sena group led by former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will likely be produced earlier than a courtroom in Mumbai later at this time, the place the Enforcement Directorate will search his custody, PTI reported.

Earlier than coming into the Enforcement Directorate workplace on Sunday, Mr Raut instructed reporters the central anti-financial crime company’s motion was aimed toward making an attempt to weaken the Shiv Sena and {that a} “false” case was ready towards him.

The BJP hit again on the Sena chief for skipping the summons. “Why is he petrified of Enforcement Directorate if he’s harmless? He has on a regular basis to present press convention however no time to go to probe company workplace for questioning,” mentioned BJP MLA Ram Kadam.

In April, the Enforcement Directorate connected belongings value over Rs 11.15 crore of Mr Raut’s spouse Varsha Raut and two of his associates. The properties embrace a flat in Dadar held by Varsha Raut and eight plots at Kihim seashore in Alibaug collectively held by Varsha Raut and Swapna Patkar, the spouse of Sujit Patkar, a “shut affiliate” of Sanjay Raut.

The company needs to query Mr Raut to find out about his “enterprise and different hyperlinks” together with his shut associates Pravin Raut and Sujit Patkar and in addition concerning the property offers involving his spouse.

Pravin Raut was arrested in a probe linked to a Rs 1,034 crore alleged land rip-off associated to the re-development of Patra chawl in Goregaon. He’s at the moment in judicial custody. Guru Ashish Building Pvt Ltd was concerned in re-development of the “chawl”, which had 672 tenants residing in tenements on 47 acres belonging to the Maharashtra Housing Space Improvement Authority (MHADA), the Enforcement Directorate has mentioned.