One of Rajkot's most reputed education trusts has been marred by a forgery scandal. City police arrested four members of late educationist Vasant Malaviya's family for forging his will to take over control of all his property that pegged at a value over millions. Malaviya's sister's son Manoj Shah, Manoj's son Vishal, Principal of PD Malaviya College Kamlesh Jani, and another employee Paresh Mehta were arrested for forgery and cheating.
Manoj is the trustee of the college founded by the deceased. Malaviya, who died earlier this year, had no children. Police investigation began after a computer programmer, Sanjay Pandya at PDM College, filed an application of complaint and raised questions about illegal transactions being done in Malaviya's trust. Assistant Commissioner of Police, MJ Solanki said Pandya raised questions about Malaviya's death. He also named Manoj's wife Sudha in the crime. All those arrested, have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 465 (forgery), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will etc) among others.
"Vasant Malaviya and some others were trustees of Sanskrutik Saikshnik Samaj Trust that runs PDM College. Malaviya died in February and had not prepared any will about the trust's property and his own assets. But to grab this property, Manoj and his family members forged documents and made a will to get the possession illegally and he became the trustee," Solanki said.
