Kripashankar Singh, former Mumbai Congress president, accused of amassing benami property running into crores of rupees, moved the Supreme Court on Thursday challenging the recent Bombay High Court judgment ordering his prosecution under the Prevention of Corruption Act and attaching of all his movable and immovable benami property.
“He has moved the Supreme Court. The matter will come up for hearing on Friday. Even we have filed a caveat in the matter in the Supreme Court. This means that they [Mr. Kripashankar Singh's side] can't get an order without giving us notice,” Mihir Desai, counsel for Sanjay Tiwari, the petitioner who had filed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea against Mr. Kripashankar Singh in the Bombay High Court, told The Hindu from New Delhi on Thursday.
Mr. Tiwari had filed the PIL plea against Mr. Kripashankar Singh in 2010 alleging that the politician and his family members had amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. The PIL had given a list of 15 properties including lavish houses in prime localities in Mumbai and huge commercial complexes in various parts of the country.
The Bombay High Court, in its order, had raised questions on several crores of rupees being gifted within the family, the son and the daughter-in-law owning BMWs on loans provided without any known security, lack of receipts and proper proofs for transactions worth crores of rupees.
