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Prakash Mehta

Date Of Birth: 22/04/1959

Birth Place:Mumbai, Maharashtra

Party Name:Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Email ID:bjpmlaprakashmehta@gmail.com

Mobile No:9820143048

Offices Held

Year	Party	Position
2009-2014	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister of Excise and Guardian Department
2014-Present	Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State for Housing, Government of Maharashtra
1990-Present	Bharatiya Janata Party	Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
2013-2014	Bharatiya Janata Party	President, Mumbai Metropolitan Unit

Education

10th Std pass, Gurukul Highschool, Ghatkopar (East), Mumbai

Early & Personal Life

Prakash Mehta belongs to a Gujrati middle class family from Una in the Saurashtra region of Gujrat. He is married to Kishori Mehta they have two sons Abhishek and Harsh Mehta.

Career

Prakash Mehta is a sitting Minister in the Cabinet of the Government of Maharashtra, He has won 6 consecutive terms from his constituency and has also served as a Cabinet Minister of Excise, Tourism, Consumer Protection, and has served as Guardian Minister of Mumbai Suburban district and the Mandal Secretary of the BJP. Prakash Mehta is also a former Guardian minister of Raigad and has held many important posts such as President of the BJP North Mumbai Unit, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Sardar Vallabhai Patel Sanskritik Committee and Chairman of the Vishwatmak Om Gurudev College.

Criminal Record

Details of Criminal Cases

Cases where Charges Framed

Serial No.	IPC Sections Applicable	Other Details / Other Acts / Sections Applicable
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Cases where Cognizance Taken

Serial No.	IPC Sections Applicable	Other Details / Other Acts / Sections Applicable
1	143, 145, 147, 149, 353	Section 37(1) of Bombay Police Act, Section 7 Criminal Amendment Act, Court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate 37th Court at Esplanade Mumbai, C.C.No. 485/P/1994, C.R.No. 218/94 Dated: 14/07/94, Date of Cognizance- 14.02.2003
2	143, 145, 147, 149, 332	Court of Additional Chief Metropoliton Magistrate 37th Court at Esplanade Mumbai, C.C.No. 420/P/1993, C.R.No. 477/1992 Dated: 03/11/1992, Date of Cognizance- 14.02.2003
3		Section 37(3) r/w Section 33(w), 102, 135 of Bombay Police Act, Court of additional chief Metropoliton Magistrate 31st Court at Vikroli Mumbai, LAC/Part-2/39/2002 Dated: 25/09/2002
4		Section 37(3)(2) r/w 135 of Bombay Police Act, Court of Additional Chief Metropoliton Magistrate 31st Court at Vikhroli Mumbai, LAC-1208/01 Dated: 20/10/2000
5		Section 37 r/w 33(1) with 120 of Bombay Police Act, Court of Additional Chief Metropoliton Magistrate 31st Court at Vikhroli Mumbai, LAC-1880/02 Dated: 25/09/2002
6	143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149	Court of Additional Chief Metropoliton Magistrate 49th Court at Vikhroli Mumbai, CC No. 960/C/01
7		Section 37(1)(b) of Bombay Police Act, Court of Additional Chief Metropoliton Magistrate 49th Court at Vikhroli Mumbai, CC No. 521/PS/04
8		Section 37(3) 135 Bombay Police Act, Court of 8th Esplanade, Mumbai, C.C.No. 183/P/2006
9		Section 37(3) 135 Bombay Police Act, Court of 8th Esplanade, Mumbai, C.C.No. 902/PS/2005
10	326, 107, 141, 143, 144, 147, 148, 149, 504, 506(2)	Sr.No. 08/13 at Pantnagar, Ghatkaopar Police Station
11	509	Sr.No. 154/14 at Pantnagar, Ghatkaopar Police Station
12		Inquiry under Section 156 for Anti-Corruption Charges under Section 13(1)(e) & 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act 1988

Cases where Convicted

Serial No.	IPC Sections Applicable	Other Details / Other Acts / Sections Applicable
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Brief Details of IPCs

1 charges related to Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty (IPC Section-332)

1 charges related to Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means (IPC Section-326)

4 charges related to Being member of an unlawful assembly (IPC Section-143)

4 charges related to Punishment for Rioting (IPC Section-147)

4 charges related to Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object (IPC Section-149)

3 charges related to Joining or continuing in unlawful assembly, knowing it has been commanded to disperse (IPC Section-145)

2 charges related to Rioting, armed with deadly weapon (IPC Section-148)

2 charges related to Joining unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon (IPC Section-144)

1 charges related to Rioting (IPC Section-146)

1 charges related to Abetment of a thing (IPC Section-107)

1 charges related to Unlawful assembly (IPC Section-141)

1 charges related to Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace (IPC Section-504)

1 charges related to Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (IPC Section-509)

1 charges related to Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty (IPC Section-353)

Networth (Assets & Liabilities)

As of 2014:

Assets: Rs 32,03,17,889

Liabilities: Rs 4,80,27,225

Controversy

Prakash Mehta has been caught up in serious graft accusations regarding the Slum Redevelopment Authority which he supervised as the housing minister of Maharashtra. Mehta has sanctioned an irregular SRA proposal which allowed extra building rights granted to slum dwellers at M P Mill Compound in Tardeo to be transferred to a scheme to project-affected people although there is no such provisons in the development control rules which would have resulted in generation of building rights more than 500 crores.

Prakash Mehta was also additional director on a company called ‘Sai Nidhi Pvt Ltd’ which was listed with the Ministry of Corporate affairs. Two buildings Laxmi Bhuvan and Gopal Bhuvan were developed under the slum rehabilitation scheme. The actual tenants of the demolished chawls are yet to get their flats. But Prakash Mehta's son's name Harsh Mehta is seen in the list of the tenants and has even got flat. Some other relatives of Prakash Mehta are also named in the list of bogus tenants.