Maharashtra: Congress MLA Sunil Kedar finally granted land in bank scam case
Former minister Sunil Kedar finally gets solace from the court in the NDCC Bank scam case. Sunil Kedar has got land sanctioned. One lakh caste-owned land is sanctioned.
Sunil Kedar’s punishment of five years’ education and a fine of Rs 12.5 lakh on December 22 would have been ridiculous. Sunil Kedar would have been in jail since 28th December. He had applied for bail in the District Sessions Court, but on December 30, the District Sessions Court rejected his bail application. After that, Kedar’s wife would have filed an application for bail in Mumbai High Court or Nagpur bench. After all, today the court has consoled Kedar.
After Sunil Kedar filed the land application in the High Court, the court would have issued orders to the state government to submit its reply by January 6. The state government would have shown opposition to giving land to Kedars. After this today, there was vigorous argument from both the parties and then the single bench of Justice Urmila Joshi of Nagpur division bench suspended the education and sanctioned the land with a surety of Rs 1 lakh. From Sunil Kedar, the famous lawyer Sunil Manohar gave his strategy and from the state government, Raja Thackeray was in the middle.
On December 22, Nagpur’s junior court found Sunil Kedar guilty in the bank scam case and sentenced him to five years of education. As per the Representation of the People Act, Kedar’s assembly membership was cancelled. After that, Kedar would have filed an application in the District and Sessions Court to get the land and education adjournment. The District and Sessions Court would have refused to give land to Sunil Kedar and given postponement of his education as he was indulging in a criminal case against the farmers. Subsequently, Sunil Kedar would have approached the Nagpur bench of the High Court through his lawyer.
Nagpur bench of the High Court has suspended the education of Sunil Kedar, hence his MLA degree will remain cancelled. After 5 years of education, Sunil Kedar’s MLA should have been canceled in connection with the Nagpur District Central Cooperative Bank’s Rokh scam. According to the Representation of the People Act, if the membership of an MLA is canceled by the Education Court for more than two years, then as per the law, Sunil Kedar’s MLA membership was cancelled.
How would it have come to light if a scam of more than Rs 152 crores had happened in Nagpur District Bank? The then Chairman Congress MLA Sunil Kedar purchased government securities from Hometrade Limited Mumbai, Indra Money Merchant Limited and some other companies in the year 2001-02. The investment would have been made in violation of the Cooperative Department Act. Further, either the private companies would have gone bankrupt and embezzled the money from the farmers in the banks, or cases would have been registered against Kedar and other accused in the case.
Or crimes were registered at a total of 19 places in 4 states under the control of the company. Among all, Ketan Seth, who worked as a securities broker, is also an accused in the case. A petition should have been filed in the Supreme Court demanding that all the cases be moved to one place. Initially the court would have given orders to stop the hearing of the case. Only if the Supreme Court or the orders are changed, then Additional Chief Justice J. Wh. Pekhale started hearing this year. In this case, 5 people including Sunil Kedar have been found guilty by the court and Tighana has been acquitted. Or in this case, Kedar would have been given five years of education and a fine of Rs 12.5 lakh.
