Activists used Section 4 of RTI Act at IG-Registration’s website to unearth a big land scam involving Pune’s divisional commissioner Prabhakar Deshmukh and top notch politician
Ajit Pawar, deputy chief minister of Maharashtra transferred demolition man and honest IAS officer Shrikar Pardeshi, who was until recently the commissioner at Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corp (PCMC). At the same time, Pawar, the junior, (he is nephew of NCP leader Sharad Pawar) declared in public that Pune’s Divisional Commissioner Prabhakar Deshmukh’s 300 acre agricultural land scam, is just a baseless allegation. Ajit Pawar’s claim is based on a few ‘tapped’ phone conversations, which he listened to! While, much hue and cry should be raised about Ajit Pawar admitting that he heard conversation of `tapped’ calls, Right to Information (RTI) activist Vijay Kumbhar researched deeply into Deshmukh’s scam that could just be the proverbial tip of an iceberg.
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