New Delhi: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s daughters have come under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) after the law enforcement agency carried out raids at their business partner Sujit Patkar’s residence pertaining to a land scam case of Rs 1034 crores.
Sujit Patkar has been a partner with Sanjay Raut daughters Purvashi and Vidhita in their wine company Magpie DFS Pvt. Ltd since the last 16 years. Patkar’s wife and Sanjay Raut’s wife jointly bought land in Alibag.
Meanwhile, one person named Parveen Raut, who is believed to be Patkar’s associate has already been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate.
Pravin Raut, a former director of a company called Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd, was arrested following his questioning at the ED office in Mumbai.
Mumbai | ED arrested one Praveen Raut in connection with Rs 1034 crore land scam; Raut to be produced before the court today
— ANI (@ANI) February 2, 2022
Premises linked to him were searched by the agency on Tuesday.
Raut was produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mumbai that sent him to ED custody for eight days till February 9, the agency said in a statement.
Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd is a subsidiary company of Housing Development Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL).
The HDIL is under investigation by the ED and a few other agencies in connection with the around Rs 4,300 crore alleged fraud at the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank.
The ED said the…
