Pune Land Scam

Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a 6000-page chargesheet against Pune businessman Avinash Bhosale's son Amit Bhosale of ARA properties based in Maharashtra's Pune and two others in connection with the Pune land grab scam.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Eknath Khadse's wife Mandakini Khadse today appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for probe in a case related to an alleged land scam in Pune, an official statement said.

Opposition leaders on Thursday staged a protest, accusing Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil of involvement in a "Rs 342 crore scam" pertaining to two land deals in Pune district.

Prominent builders and businessmen have been named in an FIR filed by Pune police in connection to a massive land scam allegedly worth hundreds of crores. Among those named in the FIR are 2G case accused Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa of DB Realty and builder Atul Chordia of the Panchshil Realty Group.

14 people, including businessmen Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa, have been booked by the Pune police in a land scam case.

A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths swooped down on Lonavla police station on Monday evening and seized a laptop and the hard disk of a computer. A CBI official said that the seized items were crucial evidence in the investigation of RTI activist and whistle-blower Satish Shetty's murder case. Shetty, a Talegaon-based activist w...

Lieutenant General Nobel Thamubraj, the former vice chief of the Army and former Defence Estates Officer, Pune, SR Nayyar have been raided in connection with a land scam in Pune.

An alleged tech park land scam in Yerawada involving DB Realty is now under anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare's scanner. After RTI activists from the city met Hazare in New Delhi, he has promised the activists he would look into the matter. RTI activist Ravindra Barhate met Hazare on Wednesday evening during his ongoing fast and provided him a s...

The list of scams being unearthed in India gets longer everyday.On Monday, the Bombay High Court said that a land scam in Pune - that began in 1976 - is allegedly bigger than the 2G scam. If that leaves you feeling sucker-punched, it should.  The 2G scam is worth upto 1.76 lakh crores according to the government's auditor. So what a group of g...

In an unnerving parallel to the Adarsh Society Scam in Mumbai another land scam surfaced from Pune involving high ranking Army officers, police personnel and civil servants.While reports claimed that the high profile crowd grabbed houses in the Pune housing society coming up in the name of Kargil war heroes, promoters of the residential scheme now ...

Details of another land scam have surfaced from Pune in which high ranking army, police, civil, transport and urban land department officials had joined to grab houses in what was meant to be a defence society.The land in suburb Lohegaon area was allotted to Defense Personnel Housing Society, and was meant for the soldiers and widows of the Kargil ...

A special committee probe has found that 30 acres of forest land worth Rs 1000 crore in Pune was sold to a private builder for mere Rs 2 crore. The probe report also claims that bureaucrats and politicians colluded with the builder to grab the land. The case is now in the Supreme Court.The investigation started after an NGO, Nagrik Chetna Manch, fi...

After the Sukhna Land Scam shook the Army, a multi-crore scam involving Defence land is brewing in Pune. The Army has filed a complaint alleging that land sharks have grabbed prime defence land worth Rs 800 crore.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday filed a 6000-page chargesheet against Pune businessman Avinash Bhosale's son Amit Bhosale of ARA properties based in Maharashtra's Pune and two others in connection with the Pune land grab scam.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Eknath Khadse's wife Mandakini Khadse today appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for probe in a case related to an alleged land scam in Pune, an official statement said.

Opposition leaders on Thursday staged a protest, accusing Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil of involvement in a "Rs 342 crore scam" pertaining to two land deals in Pune district.

Prominent builders and businessmen have been named in an FIR filed by Pune police in connection to a massive land scam allegedly worth hundreds of crores. Among those named in the FIR are 2G case accused Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa of DB Realty and builder Atul Chordia of the Panchshil Realty Group.

14 people, including businessmen Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa, have been booked by the Pune police in a land scam case.

A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths swooped down on Lonavla police station on Monday evening and seized a laptop and the hard disk of a computer. A CBI official said that the seized items were crucial evidence in the investigation of RTI activist and whistle-blower Satish Shetty's murder case. Shetty, a Talegaon-based activist w...

Lieutenant General Nobel Thamubraj, the former vice chief of the Army and former Defence Estates Officer, Pune, SR Nayyar have been raided in connection with a land scam in Pune.

An alleged tech park land scam in Yerawada involving DB Realty is now under anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare's scanner. After RTI activists from the city met Hazare in New Delhi, he has promised the activists he would look into the matter. RTI activist Ravindra Barhate met Hazare on Wednesday evening during his ongoing fast and provided him a s...

The list of scams being unearthed in India gets longer everyday.On Monday, the Bombay High Court said that a land scam in Pune - that began in 1976 - is allegedly bigger than the 2G scam. If that leaves you feeling sucker-punched, it should.  The 2G scam is worth upto 1.76 lakh crores according to the government's auditor. So what a group of g...

In an unnerving parallel to the Adarsh Society Scam in Mumbai another land scam surfaced from Pune involving high ranking Army officers, police personnel and civil servants.While reports claimed that the high profile crowd grabbed houses in the Pune housing society coming up in the name of Kargil war heroes, promoters of the residential scheme now ...

Details of another land scam have surfaced from Pune in which high ranking army, police, civil, transport and urban land department officials had joined to grab houses in what was meant to be a defence society.The land in suburb Lohegaon area was allotted to Defense Personnel Housing Society, and was meant for the soldiers and widows of the Kargil ...

A special committee probe has found that 30 acres of forest land worth Rs 1000 crore in Pune was sold to a private builder for mere Rs 2 crore. The probe report also claims that bureaucrats and politicians colluded with the builder to grab the land. The case is now in the Supreme Court.The investigation started after an NGO, Nagrik Chetna Manch, fi...

After the Sukhna Land Scam shook the Army, a multi-crore scam involving Defence land is brewing in Pune. The Army has filed a complaint alleging that land sharks have grabbed prime defence land worth Rs 800 crore.