Mumbai: BJP state president Chandrakant Patil has dashed off a letter to Union home minister Amit Shah seeking an inquiry by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the sale of 30 co-operative sugar mills. This comes against the backdrop of the ongoing ED action as part of its probe into the alleged Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam. ED has attached the Rs 65-crore Jarandeshwar Co-operative Sugar Factory in Satara which is leased to a company related to deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and his wife Sunetra. Patil, in the letter, claimed that the sugar factories were auctioned away at throwaway prices to relatives of the directors of the MSCB for wrongful profits. Most of these factories are run by MVA leaders.
Recently, Patil had written to Shah demanding CBI action against Pawar and transport minister Anil Parab over the corruption allegations levelled against them by dismissed cop Sachin Waze. tnn
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