Court accepts closure report in Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank case involving Ajit Pawar
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Court accepts closure report in Maharashtra Co-operative Bank scam, clearing late Ajit Pawar and others of wrongdoing.
A court in Mumbai on Friday (February 27, 2026) accepted the closure report submitted by the city police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in the case related to an alleged ₹25,000 crore scam at the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB), giving a clean chit to late Ajit Pawar and other accused.
The court's acceptance of the report came nearly a month after Pawar, then Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, died in a plane crash in Baramati.
Mahesh Jadhav, special judge for cases involving MPs and MLAs, accepted the `C-Summary' report filed by the EOW stating that no criminal case was made out.
The court also rejected protest petitions filed by activist Anna Hazare and others challenging the closure report.
The alleged scam pertained to disbursal of loans to cooperative sugar factories, spinning mills and other entities by district and cooperative banks without following norms. The MSCB is Maharashtra's apex cooperative bank.
The probe began in 2019 following directives from the Bombay High Court.
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