Bhajiawala family operated 56 bank accounts, says FIR

AHMEDABAD: The FIR registered with the CBI by Piyush Yadav, deputy commissioner of Income Tax Department Unit-2 (investigation), Surat, reveals that the Bhajiawala family operated a total of 56 accounts in different banks.
"There are a total 56 bank accounts in the name of Bhajiawala, his family members and Bhajiawala Hindu undivided family. These include 16 accounts in private banks, 13 in nationalised banks and 27 in Surat People's Cooperative Bank Limited," states the FIR.

The CBI quizzed Surat-based financier Kishore Bhajiyawala's two sons - Jignesh and Vilas - and Pankaj Bhatt, senior manager of Surat People's Cooperative Bank (SPCB), Udhna Udyognagar branch, on Monday in connection with an FIR registered against them for alleged illegal exchange of demonetised currency.
Bhajiawala was earlier interrogated by the CBI in Surat on Saturday and by the Enforcement Directorate on Monday. Apart from a large number of accounts in their names, the Bhajiawala family also operated bank lockers registered in dummy names.
"Locker number 1550 with SPCB, Udhna Udyognagar branch, from which I-T had seized Rs 97.84 lakh in Rs 2,000 new currency notes, was registered in the name of Hitesh Rughani and Damyanti Rughani of Thane but was allegedly operated by Kishore Bhajiyawala's son, Jignesh," says the FIR.