Overview
- Ajit Pawar said the disputed Mundhwa sale deed should never have been registered and asserted that the truth will be known within a month.
- Two FIRs have been filed based on the registration department’s complaint, naming Digvijay Patil, Shital (Sheetal) Tejwani and sub-registrar R. B. Taru.
- Authorities have suspended Taru and tehsildar Suryakant Yewale, and the government has ordered a six-member inquiry headed by Additional Chief Secretary Vikas Kharge.
- Officials and reports say the deed has been scrapped and the buyer may need to pay about ₹42 crore in double stamp duty to cancel the registration.
- Opposition parties allege huge undervaluation and a stamp-duty waiver on the roughly 40-acre Mahar Watan plot, demand a judicial or transparent probe, and note that Parth Pawar has not been named in the FIRs.