Overview
- Chakankar faced six hours of questioning Sunday at the Maharashtra Police Academy in Nashik by the state Special Investigation Team led by IPS officer Tejaswi Satpute.
- Officers pressed her on how she knew Ashok Kharat and on her work as a trustee in a temple trust he ran, after photos and videos of her with him fueled public scrutiny.
- Investigators probed alleged money trails, including claims that Kharat used four bogus accounts in sister Pratibha Chakankar’s name at a Rahata credit society to move about ₹1.20 crore.
- Officials said she has not been named in any complaint to date, and more rounds of questioning are likely as the team reviews financial records.
- Kharat has been in custody since March 18 on rape and fraud cases under an SIT review of roughly a dozen FIRs in Nashik and Ahilyanagar, while rival parties trade charges over possible political links.