Gujarat HC rejects Lilavati hospital trustee's plea seeking FIR for Rs 45 crore theft
Ahmedabad: Rejecting the petition filed by a trustee of Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust, the Gujarat High Court has awarded the petitioner the liberty to approach the concerned magisterial court.
The petitioner Prashant Mehta had sought the intervention of the court for filing an FIR in connection with a theft of valuables around Rs 45 crores belonging to the trustee which were stolen from the basement of Mani Bhavan in Palanpur city of Banaskantha district.
The Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai and a smaller unit in Palanpur, Gujarat are run and owned by the trust.
The petitioner is the grandson of late Kirtilal Mehta who is the settlor of the trust, and the son of Kishor and Charu Mehta who were declared the founder/permanent lifetime trustees of the trust after Kirtilal's death. Mehta alleged that valuables costing more than Rs 45 crore including jewelry, silverware, colored diamonds from the collection of the Maharaja of Baroda were stolen from the Palanpur hospital unit, Banaskantha district in 2019.
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