Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigating the case of the former assistant of ex-revenue minister allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 23 lakh from a businessman, is now checking the call data records (CDR) of the accused, Vaibhav Andhale, to find out if he had had any communication on the matter with the ex-minister Suresh Dhas.
Andhale, an agent, and two of his aides, Sanjay Suradkar and Devidas Dahifale, desk officers in revenue department, had sought the amount for handing over a copy of the order on a land-related issue of the businessman which the revenue department had approved in its hearing.
The copy of the order was supposed to be in the ex-minister's residence. ACB is now trying to find out if the money had been sought at Suresh Dhas' behest.
The department is also checking the type of calls Andhale had made and the phone connections he had.
During interrogations, Andhale told ACB that he had received the copy of the order from a doctor in All India Institute of Medical Science, Delhi.
Vishwas Nangre Patil, additional commissioner of police, ACB, said: "We have seized two iPhones from Andhale and are trying to track all the calls he had made at the time of accepting the bribe. As far as the file is concerned, we are trying to track how the file had reached him from the ex-minister's cabin. He has named an AIIMS doctor who is suspected to have handed over the file to Andhale. All these are yet to be verified. We are yet to establish if the ex-minister was aware of what was going-on."
The department will soon summon the AIIMS doctor for questioning.
ACB recovered several files pertaining to various hearings of the revenue department from the ex-minister's official residence on Saturday. The documents recovered from Dhas' house include copies of revenue department hearings and original copy of a file pertaining to a case of the cooperatives department. Last week, officials seized 82 official files from Andhale's residence related to various government departments, most of which are revenue department files.
The businessman (complainant) who had the power of attorney over 18 acres of a temple trust land, wanted to convert it into normal land, for which he had approached the revenue department. The order was in favour of the complainant. Andhale however demanded money to give him the file.
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