Mumbai Crime Branch arrest bookie Anil Jaisinghani from Gujrat

Anil Jaisinghani, a bookie from Gujarat, has been arrested by Mumbai police in the case in which designer Anishka Jaisinghani allegedly offered a bribe to Amruta Fadnavis, the banker-singer wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, for intervening in a criminal case.

The action came days after Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested Anishka Jaisinghani and detained her brother, both from Ulhasnagar town, in connection with an alleged attempt to ‘bribe, threaten and blackmail’ Amruta Fadnavis.

Amruta lodged a complaint with the Malabar Hill Police Station on February 20, accusing the father-daughter duo of Ulhasnagar of ‘bribe-threats-blackmail’.

Moving swiftly, the Malabar Hill Police Station swooped to Thane town and detained the siblings — a professional fashion designer Aniksha Jaisinghani and her brother Akshan — while their bookie father, the other prime accused in the case, Anil Jaisinghani, was absconding.

The matter shot to limelight after the Nationalist Congress Party’s Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar raised the matter in the Assembly, while state Congress president Nana Patole termed the matter as “serious" and demanded an in-depth probe into the entire matter on Thursday afternoon.

Confirming the developments, Fadnavis assured a full investigation into the whole imbroglio and even hinted at a political conspiracy hatched during the former Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) regime to target and tarnish him.

Later, Fadnavis told media-persons that his wife Amruta came in touch with Aniksha some 16 months ago, how she (Aniksha) had visited Fadnavis’ home several times and won their confidence.