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Anil Jaisinghani, the bookie whose petitions and age are both fluid

Documents with dna show how bookie Anil Jaisinghani forged even court papers.

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Anil Jaisinghani, the bookie whose petitions and age are both fluid
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Even as the Maharashtra government drags its feet on investigating the notorious international bookie Anil Jaisinghani, dna has found documents that show how he forged even court papers.

Faced with a non-bailable warrant by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Ahmedabad which has charged him under the stringent Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the bookie who is on the run from both the police and ED first moved the Bombay HC for transit bail and has now moved the Gujarat HC to have the warrant quashed using the transit bail order.

dna is in possession of the certified copies of both the Bombay HC order and the petition in the Gujarat HC to which the application in Bombay HC is attached. There are 17 different interpolations to the Bombay HC application in the copy attached with the petition. This ranges from change of words to the insertion of extra paragraphs into the order under 'Grounds' to make his case look stronger.

It starts from the first paragraph itself on page 111 of the petition. "That the Applicant is unscrupulously arraigned in the impugned proceedings" becomes, "That the Applicant is innocent and falsely implicated in the impugned proceedings," and then the entire paragraph 'c' goes missing and para 'd' becomes 'c,' on the same page. This changes the nomenclature of all the subsequent paragraphs there on and para 'u' on page 117 goes missing completely. This is later followed on the same page by a point '5' which is not there in the original application.

As if this weren't enough, in his application in the Gujarat HC, Jaisinghani's details like his age keep changing depending on which page you are looking at. On page 22 he is "about 62 years," while page 105 of the Gujarat HC petition says he is 51 years old. Ten pages later para 'n' says he is a senior citizen of 61 years.


Also there is now a question mark on the certificate from Bandra's Lilavati hospital attached with the application signed by one Dr C C Nair who the application claims was treating Jaisinghani's wife. The certificate dated 23/10/2015 which does not bear the masthead of the hospital says: "In view of the anxiety of the patient, husband can be there outside the CT scan chamber." The word can has been struck out and all caps MUST has been written above it. Dr Nair has now admitted on mail that the handwriting on the certificate is not his.

dna tried to call the bookie on his number but it was switched off. His counsel Hardik Modh said, "It's shocking. We will call for a certified copy of the documents from Bombay HC and tally it word for word with the application to the Gujarat HC. If this is true, I will recuse myself from this case. Neither me nor my firm would want to associate with something like this."

Incidentally, since an Ahmedabad court issued non-bailable warrant Anil Jaisinghani on May 30th, 2015, the ED has not even intervened through its counsel even once to stall the bookie's attempts at securing bail. dna tried to call senior IPS officer Karnal Singh, who heads ED since August 2015, several times and even left him a text message to find out why, but there was no response.

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