RERA scam: 16 more bank accounts frozen

Thane: Investigations into the submission of fake documents to get RERA registrations for the construction projects in Kalyan Dombivli area, have frozen 16 more bank accounts of the arrested accused. The police said that earlier they had frozen 40 bank accounts which now makes the total to 56. The financial trail into these accounts is underway, sources informed TOI.
The police said that they have also seized eight computers which are suspected to have been used for forging the legal documents by the arrested accused.
The police said that the accused arrested were Priyanka Ravrane (Mayekar), Pravin Tamhankar, Rahul Navsagare, Jaydeep Tribhuvan and Kailas Gawde based on a probe into the fabrication of documents to obtain RERA registrations for the various construction projects where the gullible home buyers purchased the flats.
On the other hand,KDMC commissioner Dr Bhausaheb Dangade directed ward officers under whose jurisdiction illegal construction came-up, to take action against these illegal constructions.
The accused were running shadow town planning development department of KDMC in connivance with each other and would fabricate the various legal permissions which also include clearances from KDMC officials etc and got the RERA registration that helped the builders show the illegal project as genuine in order to sell the apartments, said a police officer. The mega scam came to light following a complaint to the KDMC who carried out the probe and filed a complaint with the local police which was converted into two FIRs wherein 65 developers were booked.