Pune, Dec 18 (PTI) Maharashtra revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday said a show-cause notice has been issued to suspended tehsildar Suryakant Yeole in the Mundhwa land deal case seeking an explanation on why he should not be dismissed from service.

The mistake committed by Yeole is unpardonable, he said referring to the case involving sale of government land to a firm in which Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's son Parth is a partner.

"There was an attempt to give away land worth Rs 1800 crore. A notice has been served to Yeole seeking an explanation on why he should not be dismissed from service. His response is awaited. The revenue department has approached court seeking cancellation of the sale deed. A decision on this is expected soon," Bawankule said.

Bawankule said the Inspector General of Registration (IGR) department has initiated the process to recover stamp duty.

"No one is being shielded in the case. The probe in the case is going on without any political interference. If the government wanted to protect anyone, there would not have been police custody of up to 12 days for some of the accused," he said.

Accused Sheetal Tejwani has spent 12 days in police custody.

Meanwhile, Parth Pawar, partner in Amadea Enterprises LLP, on Thursday wrote to Pune police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) claiming his signatures were forged on documents circulated in the media in connection with the Mundhwa land deal case.

In a letter addressed to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Economic Offence Wing) , Pawar cited letters purportedly addressed to certain government officials and denied having signed any of them.

"Mischievous and fake narrative is being carried in the electronic and print media at the behest of certain antisocial elements with criminal intention of committing an offence against me and implicating me in a fake case," Parth Pawar said in the letter.

Investigation is need to find out the source of such fake letters and the persons who have forged his signatures on them, Parth Pawar said.

Two days back, RTI activist Vijay Kumbhar, in a press conference, showed a couple of letters which he claimed were written by Parth Pawar to the collector and additional collector in the Mundhwa land matter. PTI SPK BNM

Mundhwa land deal: show-cause notice to suspended tehsildar; partner alleges signature forgery, seeks investigation now. A show-cause notice has been issued to the suspended tehsildar in the Mundhwa government land sale, requiring an explanation why he should not be dismissed; the revenue department has sought cancellation of the sale deed and the Inspector General of Registration has initiated stamp duty recovery. The partner linked to the purchasing firm denies signing letters circulated in the media, alleges his signatures were forged, and has requested an investigation into the purported forgeries.