Files petition alleging that chairman asked for Rs1.20 crore in ransom.
A senior citizen has filed a criminal writ petition in the Bombay high court seeking investigation into the alleged kidnapping of his son by the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation’s standing committee chairman, Sharangdhar Deshmukh.
The petition hints at a job scam involving Shri Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha.
Bal Potdar, 70, a resident of Shahunagar, in his petition said that the police turned a blind eye to the matter, as Deshmukh is a Congressman and close aid of state minister of home department, Satej Patil.
Potdar said his son Amol, 29, had taken money from some people for getting them jobs in the educational institution, but the secretary of the institute, Abhay Kumar Salunkhe, refused to give them jobs.
Since some of the job-seekers were related to Deshmukh, he allegedly kidnapped Amol on November 12, 2011, and demanded a ransom of Rs1.20 crore to recover the money taken from the job aspirants. Potdar said that he had paid Rs1 crore to Deshmukh by selling his assets, but Deshmukh threatened Amol’s Pune-based sister Madhavi Pardeshi to cough up the remaining amount. He also took possession of Amol’s Tempo. Potdar also accused Salunkhe of appointing agents to collect money from job-seeking youths.
According to Potdar, Amol escaped from Deshmukh’s custody.
Potdar had submitted a written application to superintendent of police, Vijaysinh Jadhav, December 11, 2011.
However, Deshmukh declined the charges, saying, “I had neither kidnapped him nor asked for ransom. Amol had taken money from at least 160 people of which 36 are related to me. I had just phoned him to ask him to return the money.”
Deshmukh said that Amol had taken around Rs5 lakh for posts of peon and clerk. He had also given the candidates fake appointment letters of the institute.
Meanwhile, Salunkhe told reporters that he did not even know Amol.
“I do not know this person. He had never come to the institute. Our institute never engages in such activities. Our institute has no role in this scandal,” he said.
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