CBI ‘clear chit’ report leak: Company chargesheets Anil Deshmukh’s daughter, daughter-in-law

Former Maharashtra Residence Minister Anil Deshmukh. File.
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In a recent jolt to former Maharashtra Residence Minister Anil Deshmukh, the CBI has chargesheeted his daughter Pooja and daughter-in-law Rahat in reference to alleged leakage of the company’s inner draft report in 2021 giving clear chit to the chief in an extortion case in opposition to him, officers stated.

In its supplementary cost sheet filed earlier than a particular CBI court docket right here, the company has termed Pooja a “co-conspirator” who allegedly deliberate, directed, and offered logistical help to Deshmukh’s lawyer Anand Dilip Daga to bribe company’s sub-inspector Abhishek Tiwari to get the draft report, they stated.

The report was leaked to the media on August 29, 2021 “to subvert” the Bombay Excessive Courtroom-directed probe in opposition to him, the company has alleged.

The Bombay Excessive Courtroom had directed the CBI to probe allegations of extortion price crores from restaurant and bar house owners in Mumbai levelled by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh in opposition to Anil Deshmukh.

The CBI report leaked to the media purportedly talked about that “no cognisable offence has been dedicated by Anil Deshmukh”. The company had arrested its sub-inspector, Abhishek Tiwari and Deshmukh’s lawyer, Daga, in reference to the leakage, and so they had been charged in 2021.

Family members chargesheeted

Persevering with its probe into the conspiracy, the CBI has filed its supplementary cost sheet after two years wherein a distant relative of Deshmukh – Vikrant Deshmukh – and Sayajeet Wayal have additionally been charged along with Pooja and Rahat.

All of the accused have stated they don’t have any relation or reference to the allegations levelled in opposition to them and so they have been falsely implicated in it.

Earlier than submitting the cost sheet, the CBI questioned them however they had been by no means taken into custody.

The CBI has additionally despatched Letters Rogatory to the U.S. via the Particular CBI court docket right here in search of e-mail dumps of the accused, they stated.

The company has alleged that Pooja had directed Daga for the “unlawful procurement and leakage of case-related paperwork” of the preliminary enquiry and FIR in opposition to the previous minister“ to subvert the investigation”.

‘WhatsApp conversations’

“The WhatsApp dialog in WhatsApp teams ‘Crew And A’ and ‘Internal Circle’ revealed that even the designing of pamphlets, ‘naare’ (slogans) and printouts to create video content material, tweets and picture banners in opposition to CBI investigation was achieved on the instructions of Pooja Deshmukh,” the company has alleged.

Based mostly on the evaluation of WhatsApp discussion groups, the CBI has submitted that Pooja allegedly made logistical preparations for Daga to journey to HAL Visitor Home in Pune, the place Tiwari was staying, to conduct raids in reference to the probe in opposition to Deshmukh.

Daga met Tiwari who allegedly leaked the draft report in return for an iPhone12 Professional, the company has alleged.

The CBI has alleged that Pooja despatched an Innova automotive, utilized by her household, along with her driver Kundan for Daga’s journey to HAL Visitor home in Pune the place Tiwari was staying.

“The register maintained on the entry gate of Dnyaneshwari Bungalow establishes the truth that the stated car was recurrently utilized by the relations of Anil Deshmukh together with Pooja Deshmukh,” the cost sheet filed in August has alleged.

The CBI has alleged that Pooja had directed Daga to ship the quilt letter, printing plan and materials to “V” i.e. Vaibhav Gajendra Tumane, the social media handler of the ex-Minister and print the report for circulation to varied media homes to run a “parallel media trial” in favour of Deshmukh.

The CBI has additionally chargesheeted Satyajeet Wayal who was instrumental within the procurement of the iPhone 12 price ₹95,000 from a store in Mukund Nagar, Pune that was allegedly used to bribe Tiwari.