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Mumbai: Property redeveloper Rajendra Chaturvedi, who constructed India’s tallest residential building—the 45-storeyed Shreepati Arcade at Nana Chowk—finds himself in the thick of controversy after police arrested four hitmen who were paid Rs 50 lakh to eliminate another builder, Rashmikant Shah.
Chaturvedi was grilled by the Juhu police on Wednesday night in this connection. According to the police, the dispute involves a redevelopment project at Abhyuday Nagar, Kalachowkie in Parel. The plot is worth Rs 500 crore.
The four accused arrested on February 25 include Nisar Shaikh, Aslam Khan, Qasim Qureishi and Vijay Warkar. The police is now looking for the prime accused, Baba Udaynath Maharaj, and his accomplice, Bismillah Khan. The police say Warkar is affiliated to don Chhota Rajan’s gang.
On February 25, the police got a tip-off that the four hitmen would be coming to a spot near Hotel Holiday Inn to eliminate Rashmikant Shah, owner of the Vijay Group. Shah had a meeting in the hotel late in the evening. One of the four accused, Nisar, allegedly opened fire on the police team and tried to escape but was arrested.
According to the police, Shah was involved in redeveloping Abhyuday Nagar for the last five years, but the work had not been completed within the given time-frame.
BLOOD MONEY
Rajendra Chaturvedi, the builder under investigation, and Rashmikant Shah, the ‘targeted’ developer, had been at loggerheads over a redevelopment project at Kalachowkie in Parel
After Shah had failed to make headway on the project for five years, the residents approached Baba Udaynath Maharaj, a spiritual leader, who entrusted the project to Chaturvedi in 2006
Shah refused to give in and his men abducted Maharaj and took him to gangster Ashwin Naik inside Kalyan jail. Naik told Maharaj to lay off
On Feb 25, four hitmen, allegedly affiliated to the Chhota Rajan gang, were arrested by the police. They confessed that they had been hired by Maharaj to bump off Shah Group says entire episode cooked up
Fed up with the slow pace, the residents approached Maharaj, a spiritual leader, after they saw him addressing a huge gathering at Kalachowkie, and requested him to hand over the project to any of his followers who could afford to redevelop it. Maharaj then contacted Chaturvedi to take on the project in 2006. Chaturvedi later agreed to redevelop it.
Police sources said that Maharaj then planned to eliminate Shah, who was not ready to give up the project. The accused told the police that Maharaj was abducted by Shah’s men and taken to Kalyan jail and produced before gangster Ashwin Naik who asked Maharaj not to meddle in the matter. The accused also said that this enraged Maharaj, who later called Warkar and gave him the supari to bump off Shah. Warkar then contacted Qureishi and asked him to hire two shooters. “Warkar told us that he (Maharaj) gave him a supari of Rs 50 lakh and promised him a hotel at Mahabaleshwar. Maharaj also made a part payment of Rs 12 lakh. We have recovered the entire amount, two revolvers, two choppers, an Indica car (MH-04 BN 1253) and four mobile phones from the accused,’’ said senior inspector Pradip Shinde.
The accused also narrated how the project, which was being redeveloped by Shah, was later offered to Chaturvedi. “We have called Chaturvedi twice and questioned him after his name cropped up during the investigation. We haven’t got any evidence of his involvement in this case, but will arrest him as soon as we get evidence,’’ Shinde said.
A press release issued by the Shreepati Group on Thursday claimed that the entire episode had been “cooked up’’. “The developer who claims to have been threatened does not have any office or residential premises in the vicinity of the Juhu police, where the matter is being investigated. The developer has
not completed any projects in the island city,’’ it said.
According to the group, the case seems to be a ploy aimed at sidelining it from the proposed redevelopment of Abhyudaya Nagar, even though a majority of the tenants are behind it. “We would like to state that we have no business relations with Shri Udaynath Maharaj ji...Mr Chaturvedi has extended full cooperation to the investigating agency and we shall continue to extend full cooperation to them,’’ the release noted.
Mumbai: Property redeveloper Rajendra Chaturvedi, who constructed India’s tallest residential building—the 45-storeyed Shreepati Arcade at Nana Chowk—finds himself in the thick of controversy after police arrested four hitmen who were paid Rs 50 lakh to eliminate another builder, Rashmikant Shah.
Chaturvedi was grilled by the Juhu police on Wednesday night in this connection. According to the police, the dispute involves a redevelopment project at Abhyuday Nagar, Kalachowkie in Parel. The plot is worth Rs 500 crore.
The four accused arrested on February 25 include Nisar Shaikh, Aslam Khan, Qasim Qureishi and Vijay Warkar. The police is now looking for the prime accused, Baba Udaynath Maharaj, and his accomplice, Bismillah Khan. The police say Warkar is affiliated to don Chhota Rajan’s gang.
On February 25, the police got a tip-off that the four hitmen would be coming to a spot near Hotel Holiday Inn to eliminate Rashmikant Shah, owner of the Vijay Group. Shah had a meeting in the hotel late in the evening. One of the four accused, Nisar, allegedly opened fire on the police team and tried to escape but was arrested.
According to the police, Shah was involved in redeveloping Abhyuday Nagar for the last five years, but the work had not been completed within the given time-frame.
BLOOD MONEY
Rajendra Chaturvedi, the builder under investigation, and Rashmikant Shah, the ‘targeted’ developer, had been at loggerheads over a redevelopment project at Kalachowkie in Parel
After Shah had failed to make headway on the project for five years, the residents approached Baba Udaynath Maharaj, a spiritual leader, who entrusted the project to Chaturvedi in 2006
Shah refused to give in and his men abducted Maharaj and took him to gangster Ashwin Naik inside Kalyan jail. Naik told Maharaj to lay off
On Feb 25, four hitmen, allegedly affiliated to the Chhota Rajan gang, were arrested by the police. They confessed that they had been hired by Maharaj to bump off Shah Group says entire episode cooked up
Fed up with the slow pace, the residents approached Maharaj, a spiritual leader, after they saw him addressing a huge gathering at Kalachowkie, and requested him to hand over the project to any of his followers who could afford to redevelop it. Maharaj then contacted Chaturvedi to take on the project in 2006. Chaturvedi later agreed to redevelop it.
Police sources said that Maharaj then planned to eliminate Shah, who was not ready to give up the project. The accused told the police that Maharaj was abducted by Shah’s men and taken to Kalyan jail and produced before gangster Ashwin Naik who asked Maharaj not to meddle in the matter. The accused also said that this enraged Maharaj, who later called Warkar and gave him the supari to bump off Shah. Warkar then contacted Qureishi and asked him to hire two shooters. “Warkar told us that he (Maharaj) gave him a supari of Rs 50 lakh and promised him a hotel at Mahabaleshwar. Maharaj also made a part payment of Rs 12 lakh. We have recovered the entire amount, two revolvers, two choppers, an Indica car (MH-04 BN 1253) and four mobile phones from the accused,’’ said senior inspector Pradip Shinde.
The accused also narrated how the project, which was being redeveloped by Shah, was later offered to Chaturvedi. “We have called Chaturvedi twice and questioned him after his name cropped up during the investigation. We haven’t got any evidence of his involvement in this case, but will arrest him as soon as we get evidence,’’ Shinde said.
A press release issued by the Shreepati Group on Thursday claimed that the entire episode had been “cooked up’’. “The developer who claims to have been threatened does not have any office or residential premises in the vicinity of the Juhu police, where the matter is being investigated. The developer has
not completed any projects in the island city,’’ it said.
According to the group, the case seems to be a ploy aimed at sidelining it from the proposed redevelopment of Abhyudaya Nagar, even though a majority of the tenants are behind it. “We would like to state that we have no business relations with Shri Udaynath Maharaj ji...Mr Chaturvedi has extended full cooperation to the investigating agency and we shall continue to extend full cooperation to them,’’ the release noted.
10 comments:
rashmikant is a gunda absolute j/e/r/k
rajendra chaturvedi is a close aide of gangster ashwin naik and company..of mumbai...
all builders are threatened who are against rajendra chaturvedi by ashwin naik
rajendra chaturvedi of shreepati group is a big fattu...darrpoke
On this issue no one commented the truth of fake planed supari. Udaynath maharaj got bail after 3-4 days. Rajendra chaturvedi was in police custody for nearly 45 days. When he came out of custody he file a case to CBI for investigation & in this investigation CBI caught 1 police comm. PI,PSI total 7 peoples for making a plan of fake murder case.
Also in this fake supari plan some political leader was involved with rashmikant shah. As we know all many political leaders R in partners with many builders.
This is controversy over getting contract,I dont know how much NARBALI require to complete the project.SUPARI is not new thing for kalachouky people.Most people are expecting development,but not this corruption n GUNDA system way
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