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EOW arrests Sheetal Tejwani over irregularities in sale of Mundhwa land to Parth Pawar’s firm Amadea

A senior officer with the city police said Sheetal Tejwani will be produced before a court in Pune on Thursday where her custody remand will be sought.

2 min readPuneDec 3, 2025 06:07 PM IST

Pune City Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar confirmed that Sheetal Tejwani's statement was recorded as part of the probe into the First Information Report (FIR) registered at Khadak police station on November 7. (Express photo)

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Pune City Police — which is investigating alleged irregularities involving two separate land parcels in Bopodi and Mundhwa — on Wednesday arrested Sheetal Tejwani, who held the power of attorney for 272 watandars of the Mahar watan land in Mundhwa for its sale to Amadea Enterprises LLP. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son, Parth, is a partner in Amadea Enterprises.

Mahar watan land refers to hereditary landholdings where the Mahar (Scheduled Caste) community were forced to provide labour for the village administration.

A senior police officer with Pune city police confirmed that Sheetal Kishanchand Tejwani was arrested by the EOW on Wednesday afternoon as part of the probe into the First Information Report (FIR) registered at Khadak police station on November 7. The officer added that she will be produced before a court in Pune on Thursday where her custody remand will be sought.

Tejwani was questioned by Pune police in the third week of November. The Pune City police had earlier clarified that the FIR registered at Khadak police station, which was subsequently transferred to the EOW, pertains to alleged irregularities involving two separate land parcels in Bopodi and Mundhwa, linked by a common factor: suspended tehsildar Suryakant Yewale, who is accused of issuing wrongful orders in both cases.

Officials said that the case registered at Khadak police station mentions the names of nine accused. Six of them were named in connection with the offence related to the land parcel of Survey Number 62 in Bopodi (five hectares and 35 ares). While two others – Tejwani and Parth Pawar’s partner Digvijay Patil – were named in connection with Survey Number 88 in Mundhwa (17 hectares and 51 ares). Suspended tehsildar Yewale has been named in both cases.

The land parcel in Mundhwa, which was earlier a Mahar watan, was in the possession of the government and was leased to the Botanical Survey of India.

A separate FIR has been registered in connection with the Mundhwa land parcel at Bavdhan police station under the Pimpri Chinchwad police against Patil, Tejwani and Ravindra Taru, the now-suspended sub-registrar who registered the deal in May earlier this year.

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