Overview

• Rohit Pawar alleges Social Justice Minister Sanjay Shirsat cleared about 15 acres in Navi Mumbai for the Bivalkar family in his first CIDCO board meeting in 2024, valuing the parcel at roughly Rs 5,000 crore under the 12.5% PAP scheme.
• Sanjay Shirsat calls the charges baseless, says the board acted on legal considerations, and maintains that no allotment letter or agreement has been issued in the case.
• The Maha Vikas Aghadi plans a march at CIDCO headquarters on August 20 demanding the decision be scrapped and seeking Shirsat’s resignation.
• Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, in a letter to Amit Shah, alleges a far larger Raigad transfer of about 4,078 acres worth Rs 50,000 crore and urges an ED probe and removal of leaders he names, while the BJP asks him to furnish proof; the larger figures remain unverified.
• Court records show the Bombay High Court in 2014 recognized aspects of the Bivalkar claim and ordered compensation, a ruling later stayed by the Supreme Court, with CIDCO having rejected related applications in 1994, 1995, 2010 and 2023.