Mumbai : Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has been detected with Covid-19 symptoms after two of his drivers tested positive, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said.
Besides the two drivers, two more staff members have also tested positive for the virus.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar shared the news at a Diwali function on Thursday.
Ajit Pawar’s family was in Baramati to attend a Diwali function. However, the Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister skipped the event.
While speaking to reporters, Sharad Pawar informed them that Ajit Pawar has been detected with Covid symptoms and he is waiting for his test report.
Pawar added that two of Ajit Pawar’s staff members and two drivers have tested Covid positive.
Also Read : IT attaches properties of Ajit Pawar’s relatives, the total goes to 1,400 crores
Properties worth 1000 crores were seized from the residence of Former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar by the Income Tax Department yesterday, and now the Income Tax department has seized the properties worth 1,400 crores in all from the family of NCP leader including the ones of his son.
An extensive search operation across the nation was activated on the relatives of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. The taxmen on Tuesday provisionally sent orders to attach their properties in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Goa and also over two dozen land parcels across the state with a combined market value of around Rs 1,400 crore.
An Income Tax source confirmed that their benami properties division has issued the provisional attachment orders under the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act of 1988, regarding various properties linked to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader’s family members, including his son Parth Pawar.
Pawar’s relatives have been given tenure of 90 days to prove these properties legitimately belong to them and not purchased with illicit money and that during the pendency of the probe, they cannot sell these properties, the source said.
These properties include the Jarandeshwar sugar factory in Satara that is valued at around Rs 600 crore, a Rs 250-crore resort in Goa called Nilaya, the office of Parth Pawar at Nirmal House in south Mumbai valued around Rs 25 crore, a Rs 20 crore flat in south Delhi, and land parcels in over two dozen locations across the state with a combined market value of Rs 500 crore.
Notably, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is also probing the Jarandeshwar Sahakari Sugar Karkhana in Satara controlled by Ajit Pawar’s family members in an alleged Rs 750-crore loan scam case.
On October 7, the central agency searched a firm where Parth Pawar is a director, a few companies owned by Ajit Pawar’s sisters, two real estate companies linked to him, and the premises of directors of four sugar mills across the state reportedly indirectly linked to the NCP leader’s family.
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