Mumbai EOW to serve second summon: Police wish to quiz IPS officer Karandikar over receiving Rs 3 crore from husband’s account

“We wish to know details of Rs 3 crore received from the ICICI Bank account belonging to her accused husband Purushottam Chavan and record her statement. So far she has not been named as an accused in the case,” said an EOW officer

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.

Sources have said that the IPS officer may join the investigation next week.

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.

He is facing charges of cheating, impersonation, forgery, criminal conspiracy, etc, the police said.
Both the FIRs against Chavan were registered by EOW after ED shared details of the irregularities they came across while investigating Chavan’s role in the ITR fraud case.

Last month, EOW also searched the Colaba residence of Chavan and his wife and seized certain documents.