Dhar (Madhya Pradesh): Exactly a month after Dhar local court had issued notices to Sudhir Jain, the key accused in the Rs 250 crore Saint Teresa scam, and his wife Ayushi Jain, the Dhar police have presented an application before the local court under Section 83 (Attachment of Property of person absconding) of CrPC after the couple failed to appear in the court.
Earlier, the couple had failed to get bail from the Indore bench of the High Court.
On May 29, the court issued notices to the Jain couple to appear before the court within the next one month or face property confiscation under Section 83 of CrPC which authorises the attachment of property of a person absconding.
Recently, the court had issued arrest warrants for the Jain couple, but when the accused were not found, the police applied action under Section 82 (proclamation for person absconding) of CrPC, after which the court has issued notices.
It is to be mentioned that the names of a total of 34 accused have appeared in the scam so far and 32 of them were either arrested by police and produced before the court or they had surrendered. Only Sudhir Jain and his wife Ayushi are on run. Police have already announced a reward of Rs 30,000 for Sudhir and Rs 10,000 for his wife Ayushi.
Earlier, on May 29 following the courtís directives, the Kotwali police team had put up notices on the properties belonging to the Jain couple. Police personnel posted notices at about 20 places in the town including the house located in Basant Vihar Colony Complex on Adarsh Road, of the absconding couple.
The multi-crore land scam was unearthed in November 2021 after Sudhir Das and Sudhir Jain along with their associates sold 3-074 hectares of land donated for public welfare in the Magajpura area for crores of rupees.
After the complaint in the case, the police took cognisance and the case was registered on November 28, 2021.
However, after five months and the investigation officer, Yashswi Shinde being transferred to Neemuch, many have started questioning the manner of functioning of both the administration and the local police.
