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Maharashtra: Congress leader held in connection with embezzlement of nearly Rs 1.5 crore in Shrine trust

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: May 8, 2023 13:21 IST

Economic Offences Wing (EoW) of Nagpur police arrested a Congress leader in connection with alleged embezzlement of nearly Rs ...

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Economic Offences Wing (EoW) of Nagpur police arrested a Congress leader in connection with alleged embezzlement of nearly Rs 1.5 crore in a shrine trust, an official said.

Sheikh Hussain Abdul Jabbar, who was the chairman of Taj Bagh Trust that manages the affairs of Hazrat Tajuddin Baba Dargah, has been accused of transferring Rs 1.5 crore to an account linked to his wife without the permission of the Charity Commissioner and not getting the books audited during his tenure, he said.

Jabbar, a former city Congress president, headed the trust between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2016. Other than Jabbar, his former secretary Iqbal Ismail Velji was also arrested in the case, the official said.

The arrests came on a complaint, lodged in September 2022, by Taj Ahmed Ali Ahmed Syed after he took over as the secretary of the trust. The official said that Jabbar and his ex-secretary had applied for anticipatory bail in the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court but did not get relief. A few months ago, the BJP had accused Jabbar of making offensive remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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