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A tribunal successful Mumbai connected Friday (February 27, 2026) accepted the closure study submitted by the metropolis police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) successful the lawsuit related to an alleged ₹25,000 crore scam astatine the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB), giving a cleanable chit to precocious Ajit Pawar and different accused.
The court's acceptance of the study came astir a period aft Pawar, past Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, died successful a level clang successful Baramati.
Mahesh Jadhav, peculiar justice for cases involving MPs and MLAs, accepted the `C-Summary' study filed by the EOW stating that nary transgression lawsuit was made out.
The tribunal besides rejected protestation petitions filed by activistic Anna Hazare and others challenging the closure report.
The alleged scam pertained to disbursal of loans to cooperative sweetener factories, spinning mills and different entities by territory and cooperative banks without pursuing norms. The MSCB is Maharashtra's apex cooperative bank.
The probe began successful 2019 pursuing directives from the Bombay High Court.
Besides Pawar, who was past a manager of 1 of the territory banks, the First Information Report named authorities officials, the past directors and officials of the MSCB, and others.
The authorities exchequer suffered losses of ₹25,000 crore betwixt January 2007 to December 2017 owed to irregularities successful disbursal of loans, the EOW alleged.
The lawsuit saw aggregate twists since 2020. During the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities (in which Ajit Pawar was the concern minister) the EOW filed a closure study stating that nary transgression offence was made out.
However, aft the alteration of authorities successful 2022, the probe bureau sought to reopen the case. But successful January 2024, months aft Ajit Pawar divided the Nationalist Congress Party and joined the ruling alliance, the bureau erstwhile again filed a closure report.
