Mumbai (IANS) | Mumbai Police has said that Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, had offered to help a bookie, Anil Jaisinghani, in the cases registered against him, as she claimed. In the 733-page charge sheet filed before a special ACB court on May 18 – some details of which are now available – the conversation took place days after Amrita filed a case against fashionista Aniksha Jaisinghani and absconding bookie and her father Anil Jaisinghani.
On February 20, the deputy CM’s wife lodged a complaint with the Malabar Hill police station after the sensational case came to the fore with allegations of bribery, extortion, blackmail, threats to Amrita by the Jaisinghani father-daughter duo.
The chargesheet includes some WhatsApp chats exchanged between Amrita and the Jaisinghanis on February 22 – two days after the police complaint was filed.
In one such chat, Amrita assures Anil that if you have been wrongly implicated, I can talk to Devenji (her husband Devendra) and ask him to do justice, but I will not go ahead with those demands. I will not bow down to what Aniksha did to earn illegal money, I know I have done nothing wrong and you and Aniksha are working from day one with the intention of blackmailing me.
Amrita said that most of the videos that Aniksha had threatened to use against her would defame me for some time, but would have no effect once the truth came out.
According to the charge sheet, Amrita told Anil, who replied with several audio messages, “If you are really doing this to get justice, then tell me what you really want from me.”
In another message, Amrita said that even though she was ready to help Anil, it was not because of the videos with which Aniksha was blackmailing her.
She asked Anil what assurance he can give that after withdrawing the cases against him, he will not make further demands, the way Aniksha was pushing him to earn illegal money through the betting racket.
Anil argued that Aniksha did what she thought would help her get out of affairs and that she had recorded the calls and meetings for her own safety and not to harm Amrita, and that it was only information (for betting purposes). on the racket) that she wanted to pass.
In another chat, Amrita agreed to meet Aniksha to understand her matters and also assured to talk to Devendra after she wraps up the Pune (Assembly) bypoll campaign.
Amrita also argued that her relationship with her husband (Devendra) had allegedly turned sour since 2019 and as per the chargesheet, she was apprehensive of divorce after the matter.
Coincidentally, Amrita had blocked Aniksha a day before filing a police complaint and then Anil started communicating with the Deputy Chief Minister’s wife.
Among other things, Anil accused Amrita of accepting dollars from Aneksha at the office of a leading music and film production house and that her daughter had given a bag of Rs 98 lakh to one of her (Amrita’s) employees.
The police chargesheet started probing the matter after Amrita’s complaint on February 20, accusing the father-daughter duo of blackmailing, trying to extort Rs 10 crore, Rs 1 crore to help her father Another attempt to bribe, offered to provide information about cricket bookies etc. to make money.
The Jaisinghanis, including a relative Nirmal, were subsequently arrested and booked under various charges, recording statements of 13 witnesses, call and bank records, properties in Maharashtra and other states and other things.
–IANS
