A trap, a money bag and a threat to ruin my political career: Devendra Fadnavis on wife Amruta’s FIR against ‘designer’
After Ajit Pawar seeks clarification, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis issues a statement in the Legislative Assembly
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Fadnavis said that after Amruta informed him, they called the police and filed an FIR (File) A day after The Indian Express reported that Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, had filed an FIR against a woman ‘designer’ and her father for allegedly conspiring against her, Fadnavis spoke about the case, “a trap”, a video of a money bag and a threat to ruin his political career.
Fadnavis spoke on the issue after the Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar sought clarification from him in the state Legislative Assembly on Thursday.
“I thank Ajit Pawar for raising it. My wife has filed an FIR. She has said in it that some people used her to pressurise me. Anil Jaisinghani is a person absconding and has cases against him. His daughter used to meet Amruta in 2015-16. Later it stopped. She again started meeting Amruta in 2021 saying she is a designer. She gained Amruta’s trust by telling many stories and even claimed to have published one book,” he said.
The deputy chief minister further alleged that Jaisinghani’s daughter offered Amruta a few designer clothes.
“Later she told Amruta about her father and said that there are fake cases against him and sought help. She also said that my father knows bookies and by raiding them we can earn money. My wife refused. She (Jaisinghani’s daughter) again approached and said that she can offer Rs 1 crore for help in saving her father,” he added.
Fadnavis said that his wife blocked her number after which she (Amruta) received videos and messages from an unknown number. “One serious video was there. In that, the girl is packing money in a bag and that bag is seen in my house,” Fadnavis said in the state Legislative Assembly.
He further added, “My wife was threatened that this video will hamper my career. And after Amruta told me about it, we called the police and filed an FIR but did not make it public. We did a forensic report of the video which showed that the bags were different.”
“With the help from the police, we continued to engage the said person and in one conversation names of police officers and leaders were revealed. We were told that the previous CP (police commissioner) had started the procedure to take cases back. It stopped when our government came in. We have recorded everything. The said absconding person has gone now,” Fadnavis said in the Assembly.
“The manner in which that girl gave information, proves the hint that I was giving about arresting me. I had a hint that my family was also being trapped. We have many big names of police and political leaders,” he said in the Assembly.
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