Pune Police Book NCP Leader, Two Others for Forgery

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Posted by AI on 2025-05-13 06:45:04 | Last Updated by AI on 2025-12-22 06:36:11

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Pune city police have booked the chief of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Pune, Deepak Mankar, and two others for allegedly producing forged documents relating to a land deal, informed police on Tuesday.

Recent investigations indicate that in order to substantiate the claim of a land deal, Mankar reportedly submitted a stamped agreement outlining the alleged land deal. However, upon verification of the document, police found that it was forged.

This land deal pertains to three acres of land located in the Urali Devachi area that is reportedly meant for a hospital to be built by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).

Deepak Mankar, the former mayor of Pune, has been booked under sections 194 (giving false evidence), 467 (forgery of valuable security or will), and 471 (using a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code, informed a senior police officer.

The two others, identified only as Mr. Shinde and Mr. Bhalekar, have also been booked under the same charges. All three have been on the run since Sunday. The police will initiate proceedings once they are apprehended, added the officer.

The officer further explained that the complaint received by the police alleges that Mankar and the two others had forged the documents pertaining to the land deal in order to threaten the complainant. The complainant, in this case, is the owner of the land where the proposed hospital is to be built.

When questioned about the alleged threats, the officer said that according to the complaint, Mankar and the others are believed to have threatened to frame the complainant by claiming that he had accepted the cash for the land sale despite the deal not going through.

The officer further added that the nature of the complaint is being investigated.

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