New Delhi: The tenure of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has begun on a constructive word. Bringing huge aid to the NCP chief, the Prevention of Benami Property Transactions Appellate Tribunal has dismissed costs of benami property possession in opposition to him and his household. Following the tribunal’s verdict, the Revenue Tax Division has cleared his properties value over Rs 1,000 crore in a benami case, seized through the 2021 investigation.
The tribunal’s ruling comes a day after Ajit Pawar took oath as Maharashtra Deputy CM together with Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan, through the swearing-in of Devendra Fadnavis as Chief Minister.
The tribunal discovered no substantial proof to help claims of benami possession and concluded that every one the funds for the ‘properties in query’ have been made through official channels and therefore they have been being cleared of the benami costs. “There is no such thing as a proof to recommend that Ajit Pawar or his household transferred funds to accumulate benami properties,” the tribunal acknowledged.
Advocate Prashant Patil, who represented NCP chief and his household within the benami case refuted all the fees and dismissed them as baseless and motivated. He’s additionally understood to have shared particulars of transactions to show that there was nothing unlawful and all the pieces was carried out through banking channels.
Notably, the I-T Division had carried out a number of raids in 2021 throughout a number of areas, a few of which have been linked to NCP chief Ajit Pawar. The crackdown included searches on the residence and workplace of these linked to Ajit Pawar, together with his kinfolk and shut aides within the metropolis and adjoining cities.
Following the raids, a few properties together with a sugar manufacturing unit in Satara, a flat in Delhi and a resort in Goa have been connected within the case. The I-T Division had connected properties valued at over Rs 1,000 crore underneath the Prohibition of Benami Properties Prevention Act (PBPP).
