The PIL was mentioned by lawyer Mihir Desai before justice Anil Dave and justice S C Dharmadhikari who decided to hear the matter on April 15.
A PIL today urged the Bombay high court to direct the government to constitute a special investigating team (SIT) of independent persons to probe alleged accumulation of unaccounted wealth by former state minister and MLA Kripashanker Singh and his family members.
The PIL was mentioned by lawyer Mihir Desai before justice Anil Dave and justice S C Dharmadhikari who decided to hear the matter on April 15.
The PIL alleged that the former chief minister of Jharkhand, Madhu Koda, currently in jail for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore hawala scam, was close to Singh, a Congress MLA, who thrived in his close proximity and a lot of money transactions took place between them.
The PIL said that Singh's son is married to Ankita, daughter of Kamlesh Singh, a minister in the Koda cabinet, also in jail in connection with the scam.
The petition alleged that certain diaries were recovered by the investigating team which reflect that Singh received large sums of money from Koda. Despite this, probe into Singh's financial affairs had not been done.
The PIL said Singh had stated in affidavits submitted for Maharashtra's assembly elections in 2004 and 2009 that he had filed income tax returns for relevant asssessment years.
However, an RTI inquiry by the petitioner, Sanjay Tiwari, from Income Tax authorities revealed that he had not filed his returns for many years, the PIL claimed and enclosed IT letters in this regard.
The PIL alleged that Singh, Mumbai Congress chief, had not disclosed immovable properties worth crores of rupees held in his wife's name, in the affidavit filed before the election commission during 2009 assembly elections and annexed
a list of such properties.
The PIL also wondered how Singh's wife got access to large amounts of money when she had no direct sources of income. There had been large number of forward trading in gold and silver worth crores of rupees in her name, the PIL alleged and said that losses were paid in cash and unsold stock not declared in affidavits.
Enclosing documents, the PIL alleged that certain unexplained cash deposits of Rs 1.17 crore with Samata Sahakari Bank were found in the account of Singh's wife.
It alleged that Singh and his family members had obtained more than two PAN cards from IT in violation of law.
The PIL alleged that Singh had used chartered flights often in the past and that large sums of money were paid for this purpose which needed to be investigated. The petitioner also alleged that Singh had not declared his wife’s property details when he stood for elections in 2009.
The PIL contended that Singh’s daughter Sunita has two ration cards and her husband Vijay Pratap Singh was a resident of UP and a government employee there till April 1997. It also said his son-in-law was alloted a flat in a joint name from CM’s discretionary quota. "How did he get a domicile certificate?," the PIL questioned.
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