MUMBAI: A special court on Monday granted bail to deputy registrar Ravindra Muley in a money laundering case connected with former revenue minister Eknath Khadse.
The court asked Muley to cooperate with the ED investigation and deposit his passport with the agency. The court summoned Khadse and his wife Mandakini to appear before it on Thursday, after taking cognizance of the ED chargesheet.
Muley’s lawyer Mohan Tekavde said, “He was not directly involved and not a beneficiary in the money laundering case. He is cooperating to the investigation and considering these facts the court granted him bail.”
On April 28, 2016, Mandakini and her son-in-law Girish Chaudhari entered into a sale deed for a MIDC plot in Pune. They paid Rs 3.75 crore to ancestors of the original owner of the plot and Khadse’s kin spent Rs 1.37 crore for registration and stamp duty.
The stamp duty was paid on Rs 22.83 crore, which was the actual government price of the land in the record, to avoid legal issues.
Sub-registrar Ravindra Muley had allegedly helped Khadse’s kin to manipulate government records.
