dna's reporting on Anil Jaisinghani has forced the authorities to act against the notorious international bookie, who is on the run from both the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the police. An FIR (a copy of which is with dna) has been lodged at Azad Maidan police station against the bookie under the non-bailable offences of cheating, forgery of government documents and use of a forged document in his petition to the Bombay HC while seeking transit bail.
It can be recalled that a dna report on April 25 had raised several questions on the certificate from Bandra's Lilavati hospital (attached with the application for transit bail) signed by one Dr CC Nair. The application claimed that this doctor was treating Jaisinghani's wife. The certificate dated 23.10.2015, which does not even 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 'MUST' has been written above it in capital letters. Dr Nair, who earlier admitted over email that the handwriting on the certificate is not his, has in an affidavit now said he was not even in charge of the CT-scans.
The Azad Maidan police in their FIR credit dna with providing the information that led to its being filed. Faced with a non-bailable warrant from the 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 High Court for transit bail and has since moved the Gujarat High Court to have the warrant quashed using the transit bail order.
On April 27, the Gujarat HC reacted sternly to the forgery committed by the bookie and had served notice on him asking him to explain the inconsistencies and interpolations in the documents submitted before it.
Sources in the Maharashtra home ministry, who found that the bookie's call data record (CDR) reflects his calls to notorious contract killers, bookie operators and hawala racketeers, had been baffled to find him in touch with several senior IPS officers in Maharashtra and Gujarat as well. "The Azad Maidan police's FIR will understandably leave these officers anxious about whether they will land in trouble next," a senior bureaucrat admitted.
