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Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has arrested Purushottam Chavan, husband of an IPS officer, on Wednesday for allegedly duping a Surat-based businessman and others of ₹7.42 crore, reported PTI.According to the report, Purushottam Chavan, is married to IPS officer Rashmi Karandikar, was taken into EOW custody in the evening. He is already in judicial custody after being arrested in a previous case involving similar allegations.EOW stated that Chavan allegedly duped a Surat-based businessman and others by promising them land parcels at discounted rates under a purported ‘government quota’ scheme.He also allegedly offered to secure government contracts for supplying T-shirts to the Maharashtra Police Academy, further enticing his targets with the prospect of official connections.Earlier in May, Chavan was arrested by the EOW in another high-value fraud case where he was accused of cheating multiple people to the tune of ₹24.78 crore. He had purportedly promised to sell government quota flats in Mumbai, Thane and Pune at concessional prices, added PTI.Similar incident:On 16 June, the Supreme Court refused to grant interim bail to former Amtek Group chairperson Arvind Dham in a money laundering case related to a ₹2,700 crore bank fraud.On 7 April, a three-judge bench headed by then Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna also denied bail to Dham and directed him to surrender at the jail the following morning.Recently, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) provisionally attached fresh assets worth over ₹550 crore of Amtek Group firms, an insolvent automotive equipment manufacturing company, in the alleged ₹2,700 crore bank loan fraud case under the anti-money-laundering law.Dham was arrested by the ED in July last year and was chargesheeted in September.The ED said in a statement that action was taken against Amtek Auto Limited, ARG Limited, ACIL Limited, Metalyst Forging Limited, Castex Technologies Limited, and Amtek Group promoter Arvind Dham, among others.In September last year, properties worth ₹5,115.31 crore were attached by the agency in the case.
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June 20, 2025
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