Mumbai, Oct 18: Enter Y P Singh. The former IPS officer and advocate today convened a press conference to allege that he had documents to prove that Sharad Pawar's nephew Ajit Pawar got alloted 348 acres of land in Lavasa to Supriya Sule's Lake City Corporation.
Singh alleged that he had given all documents about the Lavasa scam to anti-corruption action Arvind Kejriwal, but the latter yesterday raised "a petty scam" involving unused agricultural land given to Gadkari's group, and withheld revelations about a major land scam related to Lavasa by Sharad Pawar and his family.
Singh, alongwith lawyer Abha Singh, alleged that in 2002, Ajit Pawar, in his capacity as chairman of Maharashtra Krishna Valley Development Corporation, allotted 141 hectares (348 acres) to Lake City Corporation at a throwaway rent of Rs 23,000 per month for a period of 30 years.
This was done without carrying any public auction or without keeping in mind public purpose, as the Supreme Court had laid down in its 1999 order, said Singh.
