The crime investigation department (CID) of the
Karnataka police on Thursday chargesheeted Pune-based Metachem Manufacturing
Pvt Ltd (MMPL), which is stated to be owned by Jayant Pawar, nephew of Union
minister, Sharad Pawar.
The 10,000-page
chargesheet alleges that Metachem had stored its iron ore in the jetty
belonging to Adani Mining, at Belikeri port in Dakshina Kannada district. Lok
Ayukta sleuths, who raided the port in March 2010, had attached the stockpiles
in that jetty.
When the company
claimed ownership of the stockpile, the Lok Ayukta had asked the company to
produce passes, permits and other documents to claim ownership.
Instead, the company
sold the stockpile to a certain DB Group based in Belgaum, the chargesheet
claims.
Lok Ayukta
officials from Udupi had confiscated 8.05 lakh tonnes of iron ore belonging to
MMPL, which sold 7,312 tonnes to Belgaum-based DB Brothers, for which the buyer
deposited Rs3.79 crore in the Saraswat Co-operative Society account of MMPL in
Sangamwadi, Pune.
According to
records available with the Lok Ayukta police, Jayant Pawar was issued notices
twice by the Lok Ayukta police, but he had not reacted. In response to notices
issued to 53 other companies, they had all assigned an official each and
secured anticipatory bail from a court.
Sources in the CID
told DNA they have chargesheeted 24 companies in an Ankola
court, out of a total of 53 firms that are facing charges of theft of ore and
its illegal export
A CID team headed by SP Bhemaiah and DySP
Muddumahadevaiah submitted a charge-sheet containing 75 files against Adani
Enterprises at JMFC Court at Ankola on Friday. The
charge-sheet was submitted in connection with missing iron ore fine which was
seized earlier by the forest department at Belekeri port in June last year. The
charge-sheets were also filed against 26 companies dealing with Adani
Enterprises.
Since JMFC of Ankola was on leave, the CID team
took the permission of JMFC, Kumta to file the charge sheet at Ankola Court.
It may be recalled that the CID had already filed
charge-sheets against Salgaonkars and the Rajmahal Company in the court on similar
charges. With this only Mallikarjun Shipping, which was operating at Belekeri,
remains to be charge sheeted by the CID.
It
may also be noted that earlier the CID had filed charge-sheets against all the
four companies in the court. However, the court had rejected them on the
grounds that they were incomplete.
The CID filed a revised
charge sheet in Ankola JMFC court in connection with the iron ore theft case in
Belekeri port of Uttara Kannada district.
The team led by CID SP K
P Bheemaih and Dy SP Muddumahadevayya, filed the revised charge sheet of 8,150
pages, against Salgoankar and other four export companies. The court had
rejected the previous charge sheet filed against these companies for technical
reasons and unclear information.
The court had directed
the CID to file a new charge sheet with all details. CID sources said the
charge sheet against other companies will be filed soon.
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