With the investigations of high-profile Shiv Sena leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut by the Enforcement Directorate, the Rs 1,034-crore Patra Chawl land scam case has once again come to the fore.
Raut, a journalist-politician, who is a close aide of Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray, is being haunted by the land scam case, for over a couple of years after the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra came to power.
The case is being investigated by ED under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA).
The Patra Chawl land scam case is linked to Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan and Sarang Wadhawan, the father-son duo promoters of crisis-hit real estate firm Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL), which was responsible for the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) scam.
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In 2007, Guruashish Construction Pvt Ltd was awarded a contract for the redevelopment of Patra Chawl by the Maharashtra Housing and Development Authority (MHADA).
Incidentally, the Directors in the Guruashish Construction are Pravin Raut, Rakesh Wadhawan and Sarang Wadhawan.
Pravin Raut, who was arrested by ED on February 2, 2022, is a close aide and friend of Sanjay Raut.
Guruashish Constructions was to develop flats for 672 tenants of Patra Chawl and about 3,000 flats had to be handed over to MHADA. The total land parcel was of 47 acres and the remaining land after handing over flats to MHADA and Patra Chawl tenants was to be…
