Overview

• Indore Municipal Corporation terminated garden officer Chetan Patil after EOW raids uncovered over Rs1.84 crore in assets that far exceed his 20-year salary, prompting a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
• Mumbai EOW re-arrested Purushottam Chavan, husband of IPS officer Rashmi Karandikar, on charges of defrauding investors of Rs7.42 crore through bogus land allotments, marking his second custody in separate fraud inquiries.
• A fresh FIR accuses former New India Co-operative Bank chairman Hiren Bhanu, his wife Gauri Bhanu and other ex-executives of causing a Rs24.93 crore loss by approving loans without due diligence and waiving principal and interest.
• Television actor Abhijeet Deshmukh and associates were arrested for orchestrating a Rs2.40 crore loan scam by using 48 fake Konkan Railway employee identities to secure bank advances.
• The EOW’s expanding investigations have uncovered fraudulent plant procurement in Indore, land and loan schemes in Maharashtra and cooperative bank embezzlement, with further actions anticipated.