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Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

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The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
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EoW forms SIT to probe Wasankar scam

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  • Four senior police officers will investigate the case 
  • So far 385 gullible investors have lodged complaint with EoW 

By Dheeraj Fartode
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Economic Offences Wing (EoW) Deepali Masirkar has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to thoroughly and speedily investigate the alleged scam committed by Wasankar Wealth Management in which thousands of gullible investors have lost their hard earned money. The scam had shaken the faith of entire investing community as Prashant Wasankar was always viewed as financial whiz kid, but after persistent default offences were registered against Wasankar and his associates. However, the slow progress made by crime branch in unearthing the scam and tracing out money, has invited wrath from aggrieved investors. 
Prashant Wasankar arrested 
The ongoing legal battle also witnessed many twists and turns with Wasankar flatly denying any liability and on the contrary accusing investors with violating Bombay Money Lenders Act, took everybody by surprise. 
DCP Masirkar, after studying the files, decided to give a new impetus to further investigation and constituted the special team with specific mandate to unearth all angles of the mind-boggling scam worth few hundred crores. The SEBI has already directed Wasankar to return the money to all investors within seven days. 
The newly constituted SIT will specifically identify various investments made by Wasankar, find out direct beneficiaries and other accused involved in the scam. 
According to information, Police Inspector (PI) Sudhakar Dhane, PI Naresh Pawar, APIs Pradip Lande and Yuvraj Patki are members of the SIT and DCP Masirkar is supervising the investigation. 
It can be mentioned that the EOW had filed 20 thousand pages chargesheet against accused -- Prashant Wasankar, Maithili Vinay Wasankar, Abhijit Jayant Choudhary, Kumud Choudhary, Vinay Wasankar and three employees -- in MPID court.  Till date, 385 gullible investors have registered complaint at EOW. This investors have put in Rs 101 crores with Prashant Wasankar who is now under Magisterial Custody Remand along with his brother, Vinay and brother-in-law Abhijit Choudhary on the charge of defrauding the investors.
The police have attached 21 properties of Wasankar till date and market price of the properties is Rs 16.5 crore. Wasankar had used accounts of Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), HDFC Bank, and co-operatives banks for various transactions. However, cops are still looking at money trail and possible persons and location where the maximum money was stashed. Sources informed that Wasankar had shifted the sum to unknown bank accounts or even outside country. As Wasankar came to know that police could book him, he had allegedly transferred the money in November 2013, sources revealed. Cops also believe that Wasankar might have hidden some documents related to transaction at unknown place. 
It can be mentioned that Wasankar wealth management handled 4,000 demat accounts and 2,000 members. Many demat accounts were owned by the members. Cops believed that Wasankar collected money from investors promising great returns in shortest possible time and rotated money and used the inflow to clear his previous liabilities.
Due to massive publicity campaign and prompt repayment, during initial phase, thousands of people invested their hard-earned money with Wasankar. A majority of them were retired persons who parked their life-long savings. In 2012-13, flow of investors shrinked as two other companies using almost identical modus operandi run by Jayant and Varsha Zambre  of J S Financial Services and Shree Surya group run by Sameer and Pallavi Joshi, went bankrupt leaving thousands in lurch. Here, Wasankar started giving excuses to investors as cheques started bouncing for want of funds and finally he was booked by police in May 2014.
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