THE daughter of suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani had once told Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, that they can earn “huge sum of money” by giving information about bookies to cops and getting them arrested, according to a chargesheet filed by the Mumbai police in a bribery and extortion attempt case. The chargesheet, filed recently before a special court here, has listed several purported telephonic chats between Amruta Fadnavis and the Jaisinghanis. The 793-page document has named Anil Jaisinghani, his daughter Aniksha and his cousin Nirmal as accused in the case related to demanding bribes and trying to extort money from Amruta Fadnavis.

 

It has included screenshots of purported WhatsApp chats and messages exchanged between Amruta Fadnavis and the father-daughter-duo. The Malabar Hill police station in south Mumbai on February 20 registered a First Information Report (FIR) against the Jaisinghanis for allegedly threatening to make public certain audio and video clips that purportedly show Amruta Fadnavis accepting favours from Aniksha. In one of the purported chats, Amruta Fadnavis expressed apprehension that Devendra Fadnavis may divorce her as “their relationship was not going well since 2019”, according to the chargesheet.

 

The document is also accompanied by videos prepared by Aniksha Jaisinghani purportedly to frame the Deputy CM’s wife. Threatening to leak certain videos and audios, Ankisha Jaisinghani, in one of her messages to Amruta Fadnavis, said, “Didiji, my father knows that you and hon’ble Devendra sir will use police against him and police will say that video is fake, but it will not help as my father is in regular contact with Sharad Pawarji and Uddhav Thackerayji and he will give all video and audio recording to them and to Modiji”, according to the chargesheet. Aniksha Jaisinghani had shot a video of a bag being filled with currency notes worth Rs 1 crore and sent the clip to Amruta Fadnavis from another mobile number after the complainant blocked her number. They are “very serious” and will be a big political issue, all TV and newspapers in the country will use this against Devendra Fadnavis and he will have to resign from Deputy Chief Minister’s post and your career will also finish, her message read.