Mumbai: Amruta Fadnavis, the wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, has lodged an FIR against a designer, who she claims offered Rs 1 crore seeking her help in a criminal case, media reported.

According to the FIR registered in Malabar Police Station on February 20, the woman, Aniksha Jaisinghani, and her father have been named by Amruta Fadnavis.

The duo have been booked under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PC) and Conspiracy 120 B.

Aniksha is the daughter of wanted bookie Anil Jaisinghani, who is currently on the run, and has been accused of multiple counts of betting, threatening, cheating, and misleading government officials in Maharashtra, Goa, and Assam.

Aniksha, who is a law graduate and lives in Ulhasnagar in the Thane district, posed as a designer to approach Amruta Fadnavis.

She met her several times and tried to win Amruta Fadnavis’ sympathy telling her that she had lost her mother.

Amruta Fadnavis claims that the woman initially got in touch with her in November 2021.

In the FIR, she stated that the woman sent her video clips, voice notes, and messages from an unknown number on February 18 and 19, Indian Express reported.

The Mumbai Police has registered a case against the woman and her father for conspiracy and under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Fadnavis informed the police that the woman posed as a designer of clothes, jewellery, and footwear.

The accused woman requested her to wear products designed by her at public events, and that this would help promote her clothes, jewellery and footwear, she said, adding that she felt sympathetic and agreed with her request.

Once, the woman came and handed some designer clothes and jewellery to one of Amruta’s staffers, requesting that Amruta wore them at some public event.

In the FIR, she said that she can’t remember if she wore the clothes at any event.

The material was returned to the woman through her staffers or donated as Amruta Fadnavis does not have possession of any of the accused’s designed clothes.

“In one meeting, Aniksha said her father had close relations with leaders of various political parties and later handed over a lakhota (paper envelope) to (one of the staffers) instructing her to give it to me. When I opened it, I found a handwritten note, but since I did not understand the content, I kept the paper aside,” the FIR says.

She allegedly told her that her father had been giving information about bookies to the police, according to the report.

“She (Aniksha) offered they can earn money by either instructing the police to take legal action against the bookies or they could also get money from them by not taking any action against them,” the FIR says.

Amruta Fadnavis said she stopped the car and asked the woman to get off. She also said she ignored calls from her.

The FIR says on February 16 at 9.30 pm, Aniksha contacted her and told her about her father being accused in a case and offered Rs 1 crore if she saved him, the report stated.

“As soon as I heard that, I disconnected the phone call and blocked her number,” said Fadnavis in her statement to the police, according to The Indian Express.