For over six months ACB has been proffering the excuse of non-availability of sanction for a CA to begin preliminary investigations in the case.
Though a preliminary inquiry was registered in May 2013, ACB has not yet completed preliminary investigations in the Rs 32 crore property that Kavlekar purchased in Kerala and omitted to mention in the declaration before the Election Commission of India in the affidavit filed for the March 2012 assembly polls.
The Congress Quepem MLA had purchased property measuring 61.01 acres in the name of his company, Vrushal Estate and Development Pvt Ltd, for Rs 5.80 crore between June 2010 and January 2011 at Koonamala Koonamakra in Perunad village in Pathanamthitta district in Kerala, but the actual market value of the property was Rs 32 crore.
After obtaining the necessary documents from Perunad-Pathanamthitta, ACB took over a year to translate the documents from Malyalam.
At the time of the purchase of property, Kavlekar was chairman of Goa Industrial Development Corporation and is facing a probe for illegal allotment of industrial plots during his tenure at the corporation.
The case came to light after an activist in Pathanamthitta filed an RTI question in which Kavlekar’s possession of property disproportionate to his assets came to light. ACB has quizzed Kavlekar a couple of times in the same case.
Kavlekar’s residence and other assets were valued six months ago by ACB with PWD designated engineers but there has been no conclusion arrived at, as the valuation has to be scrutinized by a chartered accountant. ACB officials said they will shortly assign the evaluation work, as also the bank transactions and loans that Kavlekar had availed in past, to a chartered accountant.
