The director of the IT firm was prosecuted for outrageous female modesty and forgery of documents

Chatushrungi police have lodged an FIR against Yogesh Jamdar, 44, director of an information technology (IT) company, for various offenses ranging from forging a letter from former minister Vishwajit Kadam to cheating, defamation, providing fraudulent information to Supriya Bank. The Towers Cooperative Housing Society in Aund, where he resides, harasses and outrages the modesty of female residents of the housing complex.

Dattatreya Society chairman Janardhan Salunkhe filed a complaint against Jamdar, saying he has been harassing the society since 2017. So much so that the former secretary of the society was forced to sell his apartment and leave due to constant harassment and threats from Jamdar.

According to the complaint, Jamdar used foul, obscene and abusive language against female residents and threatened them. Without the women’s consent, he clicked their photos and videos and uploaded them on social media. He threatened to send their husbands to jail and showed them obscene gestures during Diwali. He received ex-minister Kadam’s official letterhead on which he had written a complaint addressed to the DDR office, Tilak Road; Kadam’s forged signature; and submitted the same. Jamdar hurt the religious sentiments of the community’s residents by forging a letter demanding the demolition of the community’s temple. He even froze the bank account of the society, due to which the residents had to suffer a lot. Jamdar often threatened the residents of the society with dire consequences, claiming that he had weapons. During the society meeting, he raised his voice saying that he would take cases against the residents to court if they oppose him during the Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Due to constant harassment, developer Jayant Kulkarni, who is also a resident of the society, suffered a heart attack during the general meeting held on November 24, 2024 and died. The complaint stated that Jamdar continued to threaten and harass the society’s office staff and vandalized and destroyed the society’s property.

Police have applied Sections 294, 268, 420, 464, 463, 465, 468, 469, 471, 503, 504, 506, 499, 500, 354 D and 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for alleged offenses by Jamdar between Jan. 2016 and December 31, 2024.