CB officer in Parkar case shunted out to local arms division

Mumbai, May 11 (UNI) Anil Mahabole, senior inspector in the Crime Branch (CB) of Mumbai police, has been shunted out to the local arms division of the city police.

A senior officer with the CB Unit-I of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Mahabole's name began making rounds in the high-profile Haseena Parkar case (sister of mafia fugitive Dawood Ibrahim) after Krishna Milan Shukla of Biltek Engineers and Developers complained to the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) that some officers of the CB Unit-I were harassing him for favours.

Earlier, Vinod Pranlal Avlani, a real estate developer and builder, in a complaint to the crime branch in December 2006 had accused eight persons including Parkar and Shukla of cheating him of Rs 30 lakh after the failure of a Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) project.

Later, the ACB on April 12, arrested a tout named Chandresh while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh. Chandresh claimed he was working at the behest of a senior Crime Branch official.

This led the ACB to raid the CB's Unit-I office. The ACB had earlier recorded several conversations between Shukla, Chandresh and one Raju, who too claimed to be a tout of the CB's Unit-I.

Shukla needed Rs two crore for his SRA projects in Antop hill, Nirmal Nagar and Wadala and was introduced to Avlani by Chandresh.

Avlani agreed to pay Shukla Rs two crore in return for a 51 per cent partnership in the projects.

Avlani paid Shukla Rs 30 lakh in the presence of Parker and made her a guarantor for the money. However, the SRA project failed to materialise and Avlani demanded his money Rs 30 lakh back.

When Avlani lodged a complaint with the CB, Mahabole had called Shulka for enquries. Ironically, Shukla then approached the ACB with a complaint that officers of CB Unit-I were seeking favours from him in the case.

UNI