The Dapoli police in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri on Tuesday registered a cheating case against MLC Anil Parab, a leader from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, and two others in connection with the alleged Dapoli resort fraud case.
The FIR was registered based on a complaint filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya, who has been alleging several irregularities in the construction of Sai Resort in Dapoli, which as per his claim, is owned by Parab, a former minister, and Sadanand Kadam. Parab has indulged in a Rs 10 crore scam, Somaiya has alleged.
Parab, who has already been questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the resort case, has refuted the allegations, saying the resort is owned by Kadam.
The present FIR has been registered against Parab, former Murud village sarpanch Suresh Tupe and then Gram Sevak Anant Koli under sections 420 (cheating) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. The FIR says that Parab, along with the others, made false entries in the Murud village Gram Panchayat official records with regard to the taxation of the land where the resort is built.
According to the FIR, in September 2021, Somaiya had filed a complaint with the upper chief secretary of the revenue and forest department alleging that despite the fact that no construction work was carried out on a piece of land in Murud village, wrong or false entries were made about the construction in the panchayat, and based on this, tax was levied and collected.
The FIR states…
