Mumbai: IPS officer’s husband booked for duping homebuyers

The police filed an FIR towards Purshottam Chavan and others on the Colaba police station on Friday, PTI reported. The person is married to an IPS officer.

He’s presently in judicial custody after the Enforcement Directorate arrested him for alleged cash laundering in one other case.

What is the case about?

The accused allegedly collected the cash by promising authorities quota flats and plots in Mumbai to victims at concessional charges. The accused promised that these flats had been positioned in plush Mumbai areas like Prabhadevi, Dadar and Parel moreover Thane and Pune.

Usually, non-public builders hand over some flats to the federal government to fulfill varied dues. These flats are allotted by the federal government beneath varied schemes. These are known as authorities flats.

The FIR additionally named Chavan’s accompalices, together with an assistant sub-registrar and another officers from the Parel-Sewri stamp registration workplace.

Kedar Degvekar, 57, stated the accused duped him of ₹3.37 crore. In July 2020, the accused accepted cash from the complainant’s spouse and had him signal an settlement on the market within the presence of his accomplices who posed as authorities officers, reported PTI.

He, nevertheless, by no means acquired his promised three BHK flat.

The police are investigating the case.