Uttam Khobragade, former Principal Secretary, Maharashtra, who has also played an integral role at MHADA, FDA, MSRTC and BEST, has alleged that former IAS officer Ratnakar Gaikwad, while working as Metropolitan Commissioner, handed over a 40,470 square metre government plot (it cost a loss of R1,000-cr to the exchequer) at Akurli in Pune to Kiran Hemani of Ruchi-Priya developers. He made the allegations at a press conference held yesterday. He claimed the land belonged to the government and not the MMRDA, and Gaikwad did this despite knowing that the land cannot be part of any deal without permissions from the government. Khobragade has also written to the ACB.

Uttam Khobragade