Vijay Kumbhar alleges irregularities on Shivajinagar land where NCP inaugurated new office

Activist Vijay Kumar on Monday alleged irregularities in land transactions in the Ananta One building in Shivajinagar, where Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) inaugurated its new office in August last year.

In a press conference, Kumbhar said the land originally belonged to an NGO and raised questions over the tendering process for its leasing. He added that after the land was leased, a firm developed the land and sold some floors to another private company, against the Charity Commissioner rules. Kumbhar further remarked that persons involved in the Mundhwa land irregularity case were also involved in this deal. The NCP office was inaugurated on the ground floor of the same building.

Kumbhar said MahaRERA had prevented any transactions on the said piece of land and its account had been seized. When the registration number, allegedly belonging to the Ananta One project, is entered on the MahaRERA website, a warning pops up saying, “This project is kept in Abeyance, bank account of this project is frozen, and promoter is prohibited to execute agreement for sale/sale deed with buyers, till further compliances done by the promoter.”

Kumbhar said the tendering process for leasing the land from the charitable Deccan Sugar Technologies Association was flawed as firms having common directors were involved in it. Kalpa Vruksha Plantations Pvt. Ltd., a company with connections to Parth Pawar, according to Kumbhar, won the lease.

“There is a social organisation Deccan Sugar Technologies Association, which owned the land in Shivajinagar. This land was later leased by Kalpavruksha Plantation Pvt. Ltd. The directors of this company are also directors in other companies associated with Parth Pawar (Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son). If the land of any organisation has to be sold, then the Charity Commissioner’s permission has to be sought. However, the permission here was only to lease it for seven years…yet many pieces of land have been sold.”

Kumbhar also added that a witness in the Mundhwa land deal case, Sahil Pradhan’s name, also appears in various land documents of Shivajinagar. He demanded an investigation into the legality of the project and the involvement of any of the persons involved in the Mundhwa land deal case.