Mumbai, 25 January 2024 

 

The Designated Trial courts at Mumbai and Gwalior have convicted/sentenced four accused to Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) of upto three years along with fine in two separate CBI cases.

In the first case, the Designated Court, Mumbai has sentenced Shri Dinesh Maruti Kadakane, then Prop. of M/s. Shree Gajanan Industries based at Mumbai to 3 years’ Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) alongwith fine of Rs. 5 lakh and Shri Appa Tadoba Phadke, Guarantor,  to one year’s RI with fine of Rs. One lakh in a case of causing loss to Central Bank of India, Mumbai.

CBI had registered the said case on 25.03.2009 following a complaint made by Central Bank of India on the allegations that during the year 2002-2003, the accused persons in collusion with the bank official and other accused persons cheated the Central Bank of India while availing credit facilities on the basis of false & fabricated documents.  It was also alleged that accused diverted the funds for their personal gain without its end utilization and caused loss to the tune of over Rs. 4.40 crore (approx).

After investigation CBI filed chargesheet on 30.12.2010 against seven accused including Dinesh Maruti Kadakane and Appa Tatoba Phadke. After trial, the Court found accused guilty.  During the course of trial, three accused died, hence, the case against them was abated while two more were not found guilty.

In the second case, Special Judge, CBI, Vyapam Cases, Gwalior has sentenced two accused persons, namely, Ms. Priyanka Srivastava (beneficiary candidate) and Ms. Swati Singh (impersonator) in a case relating to PMT Examination 2010 conducted by VYAPAM.  The convicted persons have been sentenced to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) of three years and a fine of Rs. 12,100/- each.

CBI in compliance of the orders dated 09.07.2015 of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, had registered the instant case on 14.08.2015 by taking over FIR No.54/2015 dated 07.02.2015, earlier registered at Police Station Jhansi Road, Gwalior against three accused persons on the allegations of cheating by impersonation in the PMT Examination 2010 on behalf of the beneficiary accused by the impersonator.  After investigation, local police filed a chargesheet on 13.06.2015 and subsequently filed a supplementary chargesheet on 27.06.2015.

During investigation, CBI successfully traced Ms. Priyanka Srivastava (accused beneficiary candidate) and obtained expert opinion from CFSL on the photo & handwriting/signature which established that Ms. Swati Singh had appeared in place of candidate Ms. Priyanka Srivastava.  Hence, CBI filed supplementary chargesheet dated 29.04.2016 against Ms. Priyanka Srivastava and further investigation was kept open against remaining accused persons.

After completion of further investigation, CBI filed another supplementary chargesheet dated 29.01.2019 against other accused including Impersonator Ms Swati Singh.  After trial, the Court found the two convicted accused guilty. Trial case against one accused was abated due to death while the Court acquitted 3 others.

 

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(Source: CBI) | PIB Mumbai | NJ/ DR

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