7 cops suspended for special treatment to DHFL promoters Wadhawan brothers

Seven police personnel have been suspended for allegedly providing special treatment to DHFL promoters Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan arrested in connection with a multicrore bank loan scam during medical checkups at hospitals in Mumbai PTI reported quoting an official on WednesdayThe Wadhawan brothers are currently in judicial custody and lodged at the Taloja prison in neighbouring Navi Mumbai the report saidA TV channel recently showed clips of the Wadhawan brothers enjoying various privileges in the guise of medical checkups at government hospitals in Mumbai while being in judicial custodyBoth the accused persons were escorted by a team of Navi Mumbai police to hospitals from the Taloja prisonDuring the review senior police officers found there was negligence by the police personnel who escorted the Wadhawan brothersAccordingly a subinspector and six constables have been suspended a senior police official saidDeputy Commissioner of Police Headquarters issued the suspension orders on Tuesday evening he saidThe Wadhawan brothers are facing various cases of alleged cheating and fraudA special CBI court here last month denied medical bail to Dheeraj Wadhawan promoter of the now nonexistent Dewan Housing Finance Ltd DHFL arrested in a case pertaining to alleged fraud at Yes BankAlso read Maharashtra Four of a family charred to death in a blaze at hardware shop in PuneThe court however allowed him to undergo treatment at a private hospital for a heartrelated ailmentThe court asked the businessman not to prolong his hospital stay and bear the cost of prison staff escorting himOn August 24 a suspended police constable who had reinvented himself as a spiritual guru was apprehended by the Kalwa police Gokul Jadhav and his son Anirudh 21 were taken into custody earlier this month in connection with a rape case The incident reportedly occurred between January 2021 and June 2023The survivor in her detailed statement to the police said ldquoEight days before our wedding my husband and I went to purchase jewellery where we were introduced to Jadhavmdashan acquaintance of my husband He invited us to his residence in Vitawa Thane and offered us gold from a box but I declined to accept He then introduced me to his wife son and daughter given their acquaintance with my husbandrdquoAccording to the survivorrsquos statement her father was hospitalised in Navi Mumbai due to kidneyrelated issues in January 2021 Her husband while caring for her ailing father spent nearly two months at the hospital During this time Jadhavrsquos wife Ashwini and son Anirudh visited her and accused her husband of seeing another woman ldquoI defended my husband but they insisted I come to their house to see for myselfrdquo the statement readsDuring a visit to Jadhavrsquos residence in March 2021 the woman observed various ldquoprotective itemsrdquo like turmeric kumkum and lime placed on the doorstep Feeling anxious she consulted Jadhav who explained that they were meant to fend off negativity and malevolent forces He told her that her husband was in relationship with another woman who was planning to kill her To validate his claim he urged her to call her husband saying he ldquowouldnrsquot answerrdquo The survivor called her husbandrsquos number several times without a response leading her to believe Jadhavrsquos assertionsAccording to her statement Jadhav then chanted a mantra offered her water to drink and instructed her to attend puja sessions at his home He warned that if she refused the woman her husband was seeing would kill herThe survivor stated that between March 2021 and December 2022 Jadhav persistently called upon her for purported rituals During the rituals he administered tablets and water to her which caused her to get drowsy Anirudh was present during one of these rituals and in a ldquodistressing turn of eventsrdquo he was declared as her husband by Jadhav She was then escorted to Anirudhrsquos bedroom where he allegedly raped her against her will justifying his actions by asserting his role as her husbandThe woman finally mustered the courage to reveal the abuse to her husband after he discovered the tablets and ldquowater infused with tantrardquo He discarded the items after which she became less disoriented and regained clarity Once her health improved she filed a rape case against Jadhav his wife and his sonThe Kalwa police have registered a case against the accused under various sections of the Indian Penal Code IPC and relevant provisions of the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act 2013ldquoThe accused have been apprehended and an investigation is underwayrdquo said K P Thorat senior police inspector Kalwa police station Jadhav once a constable with Navi Mumbai police faced suspension a decade ago following allegations of extortion Since then he assumed the role of a spiritual guru Authorities have uncovered expensive properties owned by Jadhav leading to further investigations Agencies