MUMBAI: A chargesheet was filed on Friday against leader of opposition in the legislative council,
Pravin Darekar
, and two others in a case where
Darekar
has been accused of acquiring membership of a labour organisation by using bogus documents to become director of Mumbai District Cooperative Bank.
The three were arrested on Friday and released on bail. Darekar was given bail of cash Rs 35,000 and a surety.
“Three persons were chargesheeted and produced in court,” said senior inspector of MRA Marg police station,
Rajesh Pawar.
The 904-page chargesheet filed by MRA Marg police station has a list of 29 witnesses and records of several government departments. A senior police officer told TOI that a document on which Darekar declared himself ‘labourer’ is false.
The police had booked Darekar in March for cheating, forgery. The case had been registered based on a complaint by
Aam Aadmi Party functionary Dhananjay Shinde. In the complaint,
Shinde
alleged that Darekar had posed as a labourer to joined Pratigya Labour Coop Society and contested the election to the bank in the ‘labour’ category. He alleged that Darekar is not a labourer.
The chargesheet has been filed against Darekar and two city residents — Praveen Margaj and S Kadam. In April, the police summoned Darekar twice to record his statement.
The witnesses include a deputy collector whose report is attached to the chargesheet, three policemen and several employees of the bank. Reports from various departments have also been submitted in the charge sheet.
The police charge sheeted the three under sections 420 (cheating), 465 (forgery), 199 (false statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence) etc of the IPC.
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