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Kripa asset case: cops to seek I-T dept, ED help

Several monetary transaction took place between Congress leader Kripashankar Singh and Madhu Koda

PTI | March 1, 2012

The city police is likely to take assistance of the Income Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for probe into the disproportionate assets case, involving senior Congress leader Kripashankar Singh, his family members and aides.

"We may take the help of IT and ED departments during the probe," a senior police official said on Wednesday.

An FIR under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the IPC was registered against Singh at Nirmal Nagar Police Station at suburban Bandra yesterday and the matter is being investigated the Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik under the supervision of Bombay High Court.

Apart from Singh, his wife, son, daughter and son-in-law besides one more family member along with others have been booked under the IPC sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (disappearance of evidence), 420 (cheating), 465 and 467 (forgery), and relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The High Court had on February 22 directed the city police commissioner to prosecute Singh for "criminal misconduct" under the Prevention of Corruption Act, while hearing a public interest litigation filed by activist Sanjay Tiwari who alleged that the Congress MLA had amassed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.

In the petition, Tiwari claimed that the former Mumbai Pradesh Congress chief had been close to former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, currently in jail for alleged involvement in a multi-crore hawala scam. He alleged several monetary transactions had taken place between them.

"Since Koda's case had been thoroughly probed by the ED, we would take their help on how to go about in this matter," said an official. (More) PTI VM VI VKV

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