Sheetal Tejwani arrested in case of irregularities in sale of Mundhwa land to Parth Pawar’s firm Amadea

“Sheetal Kishanchand Tejwani was arrested by the EOW on Tuesday afternoon as part of the probe into the First Information Report (FIR) registered at Khadak police station on November 7. She will be produced before a court in Pune on Thursday where her custody remand will be sought.” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber and EOW) Vivek Masal. “The grounds of arrest have been given to her. She was called for questioning multiple times and after gathering sufficient evidence against her, she was arrested. Further investigation will be conducted based on the aspects that come to fore in Tejwani’s investigation.” DCP Masal added.

Tejwani was questioned by Pune police in the third week of November multiple times. Pune City Police have earlier clarified that 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 names of total nine accused. Six have been named in connection to the offence related to land parcel of Survey Number 62 in Bopodi of area five Hectares and 35 Ares. While two others — Tejwani and Parth Pawar’s partner Digvijay Patil in connection to the Survey Number 88 in Mundhwa of area 17 Hectares and 51 Ares. Suspended Tehsildar Suryakant Yewale has been named in connection to both the cases as the wrongful orders for both cases have been issued by Yewale.

The land parcel in Mundhwa which was earlier a Mahar Watan — a hereditary land grant — was currently in possession of the government and was leased to the Botanical Survey of India.

A separate FIR has been registered in connection to 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.