Third charge sheet filed against DS Kulkarni Group

NPnews24 Online Pune: A third charge sheet has been filed against builder DS Kulkarni and Kulkarni Group for financial crimes. Kulkarni was found guilty of fraudulent deposits of Rs 2 thousand 91 crore.

Crime Branch Assistant Commissioner Nilesh More, who is investigating the case, recently filed a supplementary chargesheet in a special court.

Special Public Prosecutor Advocate Pravin Chavan was also present on the occasion. Earlier, two chargesheets were filed against Kulkarni and other accused.

The third supplementary chargesheet is 126-page and it alleges that Auditor Sunil Ghatpande, Engineer Rajeev Nevaskar, in turn, deposited the depositors’ money in another account.

Ghatpande and Nevaskar were arrested on June 19 last year in the case. Ghatpandeand  Nevaskar was granted bail by a special court on July 30.

The supplementary indictment names five employees of the DSK industry group. The Crime Branch has informed that they will be arrested soon.

Meanwhile, three of the five employees named in the supplementary charge sheet have applied for pre-arrest bail in court.

Deepak S Kulkarni, the chairman and managing director of the group, his wife Hemanti and son Shirish have allegedly cheated 35,000 depositors and investors of Rs 2,091 crore.