It has come to light that Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son, Parth Pawar, and his firm, Amedea Enterprises LLP, will have to pay double stamp duty, which adds up to Rs 42 crore, to cancel his transaction in the controversial land sale case in Mundhwa, Pune.

Earlier, the deputy CM had announced that the sale deed executed by his son’s firm for a government-owned land in Pune has been canceled. However, the Registrar’s office of the Department of Registration and Stamps has now clarified the that the stamp duty exemption which was granted earlier to the company is no longer applicable.

The office informed Digvijay Amarsinh Patil, a cousin and partner of Parth Pawar in the enterprise, that they must pay the earlier 7 per cent stamp duty. The reason was that the exemption wa

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