Builder Bhojwani held for Rs.300 cr Aksa land grab

The Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai crime branch on Thursday arrested builder Samir Bhojwani in a Rs. 300 crore land grab case at Aksa beach.

Bhojwani was earlier booked by the Mumbai police for allegedly trying to use “forged documents” to grab actor Dilip Kumar-Saira Banu’s Pali Hill bungalow.

Divyakant Khatau, a member of the Mulraj Khatau Trust, had filed an FIR against Bhojwani. As per the complaint, between 2001 and February 2018, Bhojwani, along with accomplices, had forged and fabricated several documents to make a wrongful and false claim over a 8,000 square metre plot at Aksa beach belonging to the Khatau family, very close to Dilip Kumar’s bungalow.

Parag Manere, Deputy Commissioner of Police (EOW,) said," Bhojwani was on Thursday in the land grab case worth nearly Rs300 crore at Aksa beach."

Bhojwani has been booked for cheating and forgery.

Earlier, a complaint was filed by Panna Khatau, wife of industrialist Sunit Khatau who was shot dead near the

Mahalaxmi Racecourse in 1994. The complaint has alleged that Bhojwani conspired with Panna’s three relatives to get Dilip Kumar’s bungalow transferred in the name of Bhojwani’s father Narain. Panna filed the complaint in her capacity as a descendant of Mulraj Khatau, Sunita’s grandfather. The Mulraj Khatau Trust is the original owner of the bungalow plot.

Bhojwani had earlier falsely claimed ownership of two plots on which Kumar's bungalow was built at Pali Hill at Bandra. On January 6, the EOW raided Bhojwani’s residence at Bandra from where seventeen weapons, including knives and daggers, were seized.