Pune's assistant municipal commissioner held for illegal wealth

It was raining money from the house of Assistant Municipal Commissioner of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Wednesday morning after the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) raided the officer's properties for disproportionate wealth.

When the officials entered Assistant municipal commissioner Shirish Yadav's posh Kothrud residence in Swapna Shilp society, they saw his Yadav's Pratiksha throwing bundles of cash from the window of the fifth floor flat. Despite that, the raiding team recovered cash worth Rs 9.59 lakh from Yadav's residence, said Deputy Commissioner of Police Chandrakant Kumbhar.

Yadav was arrested by the ACB on Wednesday for amassing wealth isproportionate to his legal income. Also arrested were Senior Legal Advisor Ravindra Thorat and Senior Engineer Madhusudan Yenkar for possessing illegal wealth.

Both Yadav and Thorat have been in controversy for over a year for their alleged involvement in granting of Transfer of Develoover pent of Rights (TDR).

Yadav is a state government official on deputation, while Thorat has been working for the PMC services for more than two decades now. Ironically, he is the legal advisor to the municipal corporation.

The ACB has sealed Yadav's residence and also raided his office in the PMC premises and two other properties. The police have also confiscated files from Yadav's residence, which were being scrutinised by the officials till late evening.
No cash was recovered from the residences of Thorat and Yelkar, while the police said they had seized some files from the two. The offices of Thorat and Yenkar have also been sealed by the ACB officials.

Following the controversy, departmental inquiries were ordered against Yadav and Thorat. The two officials had allegedly sanctioned a TDR case at Kothrud even as the landowner had been given cash compensation long ago.

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