G Shetty summoned in disproportionate assets case

MUMBAI: A special CBI court on Thursday summoned the former deputy branch manager at Punjab National Bank’s Brady House branch Gokulnath Shetty, also an accused in diamantaire Nirav Modi’s PNB scam and his wife Ashalatha Shetty in a disproportionate assets case. The court has summoned them after taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed by the CBI’s AntiCorruption Bureau in the case. It said in its order that it is the contention of the prosecution in the chargesheet along with the evidence filed with it that both the accused being husband and wife as well as public servants have amassed a large number of movable and immovable properties from the check period from 1 April 2011 to 31 May 2017, in their names and in the names of their family members, which are disproportionate to their known sources of income.