Jogadia said that she sent several applications in 2017 to the Tardeo police, then local assistant
commissioner of police Nagesh Jadhav and then deputy commissioner of police (Zone III)
Virendra Mishra, but received no response. (Representational Image)
The residents alleged that the developer did not inform them of the
undertaking either in the society meetings or in circulars, as mandated by law.
“We were kept completely in the dark. There is a very real possibility that the
WR might need to acquire additional land, as it is currently undertaking a lot of
infrastructure projects,” said Jogadia.
After filing multiple Right to Information Act applications with the BMC, SRA
and WR, the residents became aware of the undertaking and also learnt that
the developer had allegedly submitted forged consent letters of 634 additional
beneficiaries to the SRA to include them in the project.
Jogadia said that some of these tenants, who the developer claimed had
signed consent letters, had been missing for several years, while some others
had illegally claimed additional homes in the project in the name of their family
members. Jogadia alleged in her complaint to the MSPCA that this forgery
was committed by the developer with the motive of obtaining additional Floor
Space Index worth “thousands of crores of rupees”.
Jogadia said that she sent several applications in 2017 to the Tardeo police,
then local assistant commissioner of police Nagesh Jadhav and then deputy
commissioner of police (Zone III) Virendra Mishra, but received no response.
When the police did not register an FIR on the basis of her allegations, she
approached the MSPCA, seeking action against the police.
In its order, MSPCA members P K Jain and Umakant Mitkar observed that the
undertaking given by the developer to the WR “amounts to cheating and
criminal breach of trust”. The MSPCA also took the view that the “undertaking
given by the developer to the Railways, manipulation of the list of beneficiaries
and addition of beneficiaries in the annexure 2, on the basis of prima facie
false and fabricated documents, does require registration of an offence and
proper investigation”.
Jogadia is now optimistic that her years-long efforts to bring the alleged
illegalities to light have borne fruit. “Our house overlooks the railway tracks. If
the WR ever decides that the buildings need to be demolished, our home will
be the first to be broken. We have nowhere else to go,” she said.