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The Bombay High Court connected Monday (December 22, 2025) dismissed a nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) petition seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against elder NCP (Sharad Pawar) person Sharad Pawar, his girl and Baramati MP Supriya Sule, and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar implicit alleged irregular permissions granted for the Lavasa elevation presumption task successful Pune district.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad held that the petitioner, advocate Nanasaheb Jadhav, had failed to establish any statutory ground for the relief sought. “While exercising civilian jurisdiction, this tribunal cannot walk a absorption to the constabulary to registry an FIR,” the Bench observed, adding that the PIL plea lacked merit. A item bid is awaited.
Mr. Jadhav’s PIL sought a directive to the CBI to initiate criminal proceedings against the Pawars for allegedly facilitating special permissions for Lavasa nether the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act. He claimed that contempt filing a ailment with the Pune Police Commissioner successful December 2018, nary enactment was taken.
In February 2022, the High Court had refused to interfere erstwhile Mr. Jadhav challenged the legality of permissions granted to Lavasa, though it remarked that determination appeared to beryllium “some exertion of power and clout” by Mr. Sharad Pawar and his daughter. The latest petition, filed successful 2023, reiterated similar allegations and sought a CBI probe.
The Bench noted that the contiguous PIL plea was “repetitive” and did not bring immoderate caller worldly connected record. “The petitioner has made akin allegations again and again,” the judges said.
‘Recycling accusations’
Mr. Sharad Pawar, done an involution exertion filed successful March this year, opposed the PIL plea, terming it “harassment without evidence.” He argued that the petitioner was recycling accusations to people nationalist figures and that the allegations were “baseless and politically motivated.”
The High Court had reserved its bid connected December 16 aft proceeding arguments from some sides and pronounced it connected Monday (December 22, 2025).
The Lavasa elevation presumption project, conceived arsenic India’s archetypal privately planned city, has been mired successful ineligible and biology disputes for implicit a decade. Spread crossed the Western Ghats adjacent Pune, the task faced allegations of violating biology norms, encroaching upon wood land, and obtaining clearances done governmental influence.
In 2011, the Union Environment Ministry issued a stop-work bid citing violations of the Environment Protection Act. Subsequent reports flagged irregularities successful onshore acquisition and permissions granted nether peculiar readying authorities. The task besides attracted scrutiny from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which pointed to lapses successful regulatory oversight.
