Pune: The state prosecution on Thursday told a magisterial court that police were investigating possible cash transaction between arrested power of attorney (PoA)-holder Sheetal Tejwani and other accused in the Rs300 crore Mundhwa land parcel deal after a scrutiny of her bank account showed no entries related to the declared consideration for the land. Tejwani has so far given evasive replies on this front, the police said in a remand report seeking a five-day extension of her custody. The court extended Tejwani’s remand in police custody till Dec 15.On Dec 3, Pune police’s economic offences wing (EOW) arrested Tejwani (44), who claims to hold the PoA for the 272 original holders of the 40-acre Mahar Watan land parcel at Mundhwa, now belonging to state govt, over alleged irregularities linked to suspended tehsildar Suryakant Yeole’s two illegal orders granting ownership rights of the govt land parcels at Mundhwa and Bopodi to private parties. Tejwani is accused of entering a Rs300-crore deal for the Mundhwa land parcel with Amadea Enterprises LLP, a firm in which deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s son, Parth, is a partner. While Parth has not been named in the FIR, Amadea’s other partner, Digvijay Partil, is named. The remand report stated that the police needed sufficient time to establish at whose instance Tejwani gave a letter to the Pune district collector’s office on Dec 30, 2024, claiming that govt had regranted the land parcel in favour of the original land holders (Watandars), and furnished a Rs11,000 demand draft (DD) with this letter towards the occupancy price for the land parcel.The report stated that through her lawyer, the police have secured the originals of the sale deed and the PoA, but they were not ruling out the possibility of Tejwani having other offices and residential addresses which needed to be probed for recovery of documents. Of the two mobile phone handsets recovered from her, Tejwani was using one that was in the name of another person, the report stated.“The police are investigating if Tejwani used the other number for communicating with the other accused or financial transactions and if she also held bank account(s) in the name of other people,” the report added. Moreover, the police are investigating the motive behind registering the sale deed at the sub-registrar, Haveli IV office in Bavdhan instead of a sub-registrar’s office near Mundhwa where the land parcel is located. The police also needed to interrogate Tejwani on how and through whom she came in contact with Amadea Enterprises, how the land deal conspiracy was hatched and who others were involved, the report added. Tejwani has not provided details of the money she has paid to the heirs of the original land holders (Watandars) as part of a development agreement she entered in 2008 related to the land parcel. The police were also seeking information from the registration department regarding all previous land transactions done by Tejwani and involving sale deeds, mortgage deeds, power of attorney and development agreements, the report stated.
