Kondhane dam scam: Sunil Tatkare in a soup as officials get booked by ACB

The ACB, Thane, has registered a FIR against five retired officers and an official of the Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation (KIDC) as well as contractor Nisar Fateh Mohammed Khatri, partner of FA Enterprises, over alleged irregularities in the tendering of the Kondhane dam in Konkan region

Sunil Tatkare

Fresh trouble could be brewing for former irrigation minister Sunil Tatkare. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Thane, has registered an FIR against five retired officers and an official of the Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation (KIDC) as well as contractor Nisar Fateh Mohammed Khatri, partner of FA Enterprises, over alleged irregularities in the tendering of the Kondhane dam in Konkan region.

“Our investigations are on and we are registering FIRs,” said an ACB official. The ACB had earlier registered two FIRs — over Balganga dam in Konkan and Gosirkhurd project in Vidarbha — on the irrigation scam. Former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and Tatkare’s names had cropped up in the investigation for allegedly abetting the fraud.

“It’s a welcome step, although it has come very late. We hope that the ACB will arrest the main culprits,” said social activist and former AAP member Anjali Damania. “[The fraud] could not have happened without the consent of then irrigation minister Sunil Tatkare.”

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