EOW questions IPS officer Rashmi Karandikar after she joins probe in Rs 32 cr fraud cases against her husband

The EOW had summoned her on March 11, asking her to remain present before the probe agency on March 13. But she didn’t turn up. She claimed that she did not get the summons, hence she had come to the EOW office. However, her statement was not recorded. She assured investigators that she would soon come back to record her statement, said a senior EOW officer.

The EOW wishes to question her regarding details of Rs 3 crore she received from the ICICI Bank account belonging to her accused husband Purushottam Chavan. So far, she has not been named as an accused in the case, the officer added.

To be sure, Karandikar has distanced herself from Chavan and has already filed for divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty, financial harassment, incompatibility, her husband’s bipolar disorder, and his concealment of financial dealings.

Last month, EOW registered two cases against Karandikar’s husband Chavan for the alleged offences that took place between March 2015 and April 2024.

In the first case, Chavan and 11 others allegedly duped 20 people of Rs 24.78 crore under the pretext of selling them government quota flats in Mumbai, Thane, and Pune at concessional rates using his influence in the government.

In the second FIR, Chavan allegedly swindled a Surat-based businessman and others of Rs 7.42 crore and not only accepted money allegedly from the businessman under the fraudulent pretext of selling plots from government quota at a concessional rate, but also claimed to help him grab contracts for supplying T-shirts in Maharashtra Police Academy in Nashik, but never fulfilled his promises.

Chavan is currently in jail after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested him in May last year in a Rs 263-crore Income Tax Refund (ITR) fraud case.