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The Godmother had invented ‘one-ka-three’ formula

Manbai Rathore’s name figures in more than 25 cheating cases.

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Sixty-year-old Manbai Rathore, the alleged mentor of conman Ashok Jadeja, who duped his community members in a scam worth more than Rs1,600 crore, had taken up the business of fraud when she was just 20. Manbai is sister of Ashok’s father and according to police, her name figures in more than 25 cases of cheating in several police stations of Gujarat.

DNA investigated and found that she had started her crime career with small robberies and thefts. Later, she expanded her network and committed many fraud and cheating cases. In 1991, she started a business of ‘Varli Matka’ in partnership with her friend, Ram Patel, at Naroda in Ahmedabad.

With a significant rise in her black income, Manbai started living a luxurious life. According to sources, she owns property worth crores of rupees. She has flats and bungalows in Satellite, Vastrapur, Bapunagar and various other parts of cities. She had also made lots of money from stock markets.  For the past a few months, she had been staying with Ashok Jadeja in Sarkhej. Sources said she had given the ‘triple the money’ idea to Jadeja. Her entire family is believed to be involved in one or other fraud case. Manbai got married to Rasik Chhara when she was 25. Rasik died after some ten years of their marriage. She has five children - three sons and two daughters. The eldest son Vijay is believed to be lying on death bed as he is addicted to liquor. Manish, her second son, is currently working with some private company, but he is allegedly handling accounts and recovery work in Jadeja’s illegal business.

The third son, Dharmesh, earns around Rs6,000 per month but his role in the scam is not yet established. Both her daughters - Chetna and Jyotika - got married to relatives of Ashok Jadeja in Sarkhej.

Chetna and Jyotika’s husbands, Harish alias Hadmat and Neeru respectively, are also involved in the scam with Manbai and Jadeja.
It is said that Manish’s wife escaped to her parental house in Dahod with huge cash and around 15kg of gold after the scam came to light.
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