SIT to re-examine Bhujbal’s son

Mumbai, February 22

NCP MLA Pankaj Bhujbal will be re-examined this week by the SIT team probing the allegations of corruption against his father and former Maharashtra PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal.

“We have summoned Pankaj Bhujbal this week. He is expected to appear before us in two-three days,” an official with Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said today.

The SIT, which consists of officials of the ACB and Enforcement Directorate, had questioned Bhujbal’s nephew and former MP Sameer last Friday for nearly three hours at ACB’s Worli headquarters and recorded his statement.

As directed by the SIT, Sameer will present himself before the investigators again this week. The officials did not specify the dates as to when the two would have to present themselves before them.

The special squad is scheduled to submit its probe report before the Bombay High Court on February 28.

In December last year, the state government gave nod to ACB’s proposal to conduct open inquiry into the allegations against Chhagan Bhujbal in connection with construction of new Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi and two government buildings in Mumbai. The Maharashtra Sadan was inaugurated in 2013.

When Bhujbal was the PWD minister, the government had entered into agreement with a contractor for construction of Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi, a state guest house (High Mount) at Malabar Hill here and new administrative building and residential quarters for Regional Transport Office at suburban Andheri on PPP basis. — PTI