In a significant development in the Rs 1,200 crore Bhaichand Hirachand Raisoni State Cooperative Credit Society (BHRSCCS) scam, the CBO has lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against IPS officer Bhagyashree Navtakke on alleged charges of forgery, criminal conspiracy and other lapses that took place during the investigations into the scam.

The registration of an FIR by the CBI by the CBI Special Crime Cell-III against Navtakke – who is currently posted as Superintendent of Police, State Reserve Police Force --comes six weeks after the Bundgarden Police Station in Pune for the alleged lapses in  the BHRSCCS that came to light in 2020-2021.

At that time, Navtakke was the Pune Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Police & Economic Offences Wing). The Pune Police had booked her after a CID probe report submitted to the DGP raised concerns of procedural and other lapses in the BHRSCCS investigations. Now, the CBI has filed a FIR against her in the same sensational case.

The CID probe revealed that in November  2020, Navtakke had committed alleged irregularities like registering three cases under the same crime on a single day (at Deccan, Alandi and Shikrapur police stations, all in Pune district), and later carrying out a joint raid at the BHRSCCS offices at Jalgaon in north Maharashtra.

It may be recalled that in 2015, following a complaint of cheating lodged at Kothrud police station by a senior citizen, Mukund Badve, and other depositors, Pune City Police had arrested 12 persons, including the chairman and directors of the BHRSCCS,