The Shiv Sena will stage a protest across Mumbai over party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut’s arrest in the Patra Chawl land scam case. After Raut’s arrest on Sunday midnight, protests took place in Jammu and Pune soon after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate.

Speaking to a TV channel, Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said the party MPs will raise the issue in Parliament too. She said the BJP was trying to silence whoever exposed it and said the Shiv Sena will not bow to the BJP.

Sanjay Raut had been summoned twice by the ED and had not appeared necessitating his arrest. His brother, Sunil Raut, said the BJP was afraid of Sanjay Raut and got him arrested on trumped up charges. He said the ED didn’t give him any documents.

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Before his arrest, Sanjay Raut had claimed the ED was trying to weaken the Shiv Sena and a false case was prepared against him.

The BJP hit back at the Shiv Sena leader for skipping the summons. BJP MLA Ram Kadam asked why was Raut scared of the ED if he was innocent. He had time to give press conferences but couldn’t appear before the ED, Kadam wondered.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde also took a dig at Sanjay Raut and said he should not be scared. The CM said he need not fear if he was innocent and the probe should continue. On Sunday, the ED had seized cash worth Rs 11.50 lakh from Sanjay Raut’s residence in Mumbai.

In April, the agency had attached assets worth Rs 11.15 crore from his wife Varsha Raut and two of his associates.

Besides, Raut was the pointperson for the Shiv Sena in Delhi and was a stout defender of the erstwhile Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government when the Eknath Shinde faction of the party forced the resignation of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday attached Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s property in connection with its probe into the Rs 1034-crore floor space index (FSI) fraud at Patra Chawl in Goregaon.

Attached assets include eight land parcels worth Rs 9 crore in Alibaug and a flat worth Rs 2 crore in Mumbai’s Dadar suburb, and the ED issued a provisional attachment under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to freeze the land parcels (plots) and flat, the agency officials told the PTI.

Soon after news broke that his properties have been attached by the agency, he took to Twitter to vent his ire and wrote, Asatyamev Jayate (Untruth wins).

This comes after ED filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against Pravin on April 1.

Earlier on February 2, 2022, the probe agency had arrested businessman Pravin Raut, a close associate of Sanjay Raut, in connection with the case.

The Centre’s probe agency had already investigated Sanjay Raut’s wife Varsha Raut last year in connection with another PMLA case linked to the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank fraud case and for her links with Pravin Raut’s wife Madhuri.

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The ED is also probing Pravin for illegally selling the floor space index (FSI) of a plot in suburban Mumbai by Guruashish Construction Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL). The ED has alleged that the company fraudulently sold FSI worth Rs 1,034 crore without building the mandatory tenements for people living in the Chawl.

A few years ago, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) had given the contract to Guruashish Construction to redevelop Patra Chawl in suburban Mumbai’s Goregaon West. Pravin had negotiated the deal between MHADA and HDIL, the agency said.

HDIL has been investigated multiple times by the ED in connection with the Rs 4,300 crore fraud at Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank.

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