Bangalore: Another Jolt for BJP – Asnotikar Next in Firing Line

Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Nov 8: In all likelihood, a private complaint will be filed against fisheries minister, Anand V Asnotikar, in Lokayukta court here within the next two days. Asnotikar, a complainant has alleged, has hijacked an Andhra Pradesh-based company in connivance with some people.

The complainant, V Krishna Prasad, says that Asnotikar, partnering with his mother, Shubhalatha Asnotikar, had set up a company named ‘Sai Annapurna Bio Protiens (Goa) Private Ltd’ in Goa. He says that Asnotikar had created this company with the help of fake records, and that a company with same name, owned by Vemuri Krishna Prasad, functions in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. He also has inferred that Asnotikar and his mother, in creating this company, had been driven by malicious intentions.

The company in Goa was floated by Asnotikar, his mother, Shubhalatha Asnotikar, chartered accountant, Krishna M Badekar, Shyam Prasad, brother of Krishna Prasad and shareholder in the company owned by the latter, and chartered accountant of the company, C T Choudhary. Both the companies bear similar names except that the name of Asnotikar’s company bears the word, (Goa), after the company’s name. The minister and his family members got involved with this mischievous activity by influencing V Shyam Prasad. “This has resulted in a loss of about Rs 100 crore to me because of this act,” the complainant has claimed, in a complaint submitted to the Lokayukta.

The complainant avers that after becoming fisheries minister in 2009, Asnotikar influenced Shyam Prasad to set up the said company in Goa in which Shubhalatha has 50 percent stake. The company thereafter, dealt with people, by making them believe through fake documents, that it is the same concern which functions from Vijayawada, he adds.

Moreover, the Vijayawada-based company had entered into an agreement in 2010 with a Chinese company for the supply of machinery to its plants in Kerala and Karwar. Asnotikar’s company, by furnishing fake documents to customs department, made them believe that both the companies are same. As such, the machinery which was to be received by the company in Andhra Pradesh, went to the Goan company, he has explained.

Another allegation the petitioner has made is that the Goan company, by creating fake documents, got the sub-lease of a land that was leased to Rallis India Ltd in Cuddalore Tamil Nadu, changed in its favour, although the original agreement was between the Andhra Pradesh company and Rallis to sub-lease the land to the Vijayawada-based company.