10/11/2017
PUNE/
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court granted interim protection from arrest
to Pune-based real estate developer D S Kulkarni and his wife in an alleged
cheating case.
Justice A S Gadkari passed the order while hearing the
anticipatory bail pleas filed by D S Kulkarni, the owner of DSK Builders, and
his wife Hemanti Kulkarni. The couple approached the high court after a
sessions court in Pune rejected their pleas for their anticipatory bail
applications.
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Pune police had lodged
a case last month against the company and the couple for allegedly cheating
around 1,350 depositors, who claimed that they did not get back their
investments amounting to about Rs 50 crore. The high court today said it would
hear the pleas on November 17.
"Interim protection from arrest is granted till
then," Justice Gadkari said. After scores of complaints, the EOW had last
week conducted searches at DSKs offices and residence and wrote to the banks to
freeze the groups 70 accounts. They had also written to various agencies such
as SEBI, ED and sub-registrar offices. For the past several months, all these
investors, largely pensioners, were queueing up at the DSKs office here.
As many as 170 depositors, who invested in the Fixed Deposit
(FD) scheme of the DSK group, had approached the Pune Police a couple of months
ago, demanding that a cheating case be registered against the firm. According
to police, a senior citizen, Jitendra Mulekar (65) had last month complained to
the police claiming to have invested Rs 4,40,647 in the scheme. The investor
alleged that he neither received the principal amount nor the interest since
February 2017.
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