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Amruta Fadnavis has filed a grievance with the Mumbai Police towards the girl.
Mumbai/New Delhi:
A sensational allegation by Amruta Fadnavis, the spouse of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, {that a} bookie’s daughter tried to threaten and blackmail her sparked a political furore within the state meeting as we speak. The bookie’s daughter has been arrested.
The opposition Congress and NCP’s Ajit Pawar questioned how the spouse of the state Residence Minister might be focused like this.
Amruta Fadnavis has filed a grievance with the Mumbai Police towards the girl, who claimed to be a designer, and has alleged a conspiracy. A girl named “Aniksha” and her father have been named in a First Info Report (FIR) filed on February 20.
Amruta Fadnavis, a banker, alleges that the girl befriended her, and tried to bribe her, providing her Rs 1 crore to intervene in a legal case involving her father. She allegedly additionally supplied to provide info on bookies “to assist her earn cash”.
“If the Residence Ministers’ household is just not secure, how can the individuals within the state really feel secure?” Congress’s Nana Patole questioned, demanding a radical investigation.
Mr Fadnavis instructed the Home that the designer ingratiated herself together with his spouse to get her to avoid wasting her father.
“The FIR particulars the corruption and bribery try. Anil Jaisinghani is a bookie, lacking for 4 or 5 years lacking. There are 14 circumstances towards him. His daughter Aniksha, who’s educated, she acquired in contact with my spouse after the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) got here to energy,” Mr Fadnavis instructed reporters.
“She stated I’m a costume designer, put on my attire, I do jewelry work,” he defined.
The girl allegedly contacted Ms Fadnavis first in November 2021.
In line with the FIR, Ms Fadnavis stated the girl despatched her video clips, voice notes and messages from an unknown quantity on February 18 and 19.
“She requested me to put on merchandise designed by her at public occasions, and that this may assist promote her garments, jewelry and footwear. I felt sympathetic… and stated alright,” Ms Fadnavis stated.
Of their first assembly, the girl had claimed to have misplaced her mom, the FIR says.
“In a single assembly, Aniksha stated her father had shut relations with leaders of assorted political events and later handed over a lakhota (paper envelope) to (one of many staffers) instructing her to provide it to me. After I opened it, I discovered a handwritten observe, however since I didn’t perceive the content material, I stored the paper apart,” the FIR says.
Ms Fadnavis alleged that the girl as soon as lied to her bodyguard and sat in her automotive. She allegedly instructed her that her father had been giving details about bookies to the police and supplied a plan to earn a living. “She (Aniksha) supplied they’ll earn cash by both instructing the police to take authorized motion towards the bookies or they might additionally get cash from them by not taking any motion towards them,” the FIR says.
Ms Fadnavis stated she stopped the automotive and requested the girl to exit. She additionally stated she ignored calls from her. The FIR says on February 16 at 9.30 pm, Aniksha contacted Ms Fadnavis and instructed her about her father being accused in a case and supplied Rs 1 crore if she saved him. “As quickly as I heard that, I disconnected the cellphone name and blocked her quantity,” she stated.
