One of the petitioners Bhagwandas Rathi worked as Departmental Assistant in the Engineering department at Model Mills while the other petitioner Ajay is said to be a social worker.

The petitioners allege that forged documents were used in collusion with government officials and subsequently all incriminating documents that could be produced as evidence of the fraudulent mortgage were destroyed.

Polysack Industrial Society came into existence in April 1989 but was curiously allotted a plot measuring 4,950 square metres and financial assistance of ₹25 lakh in 1987by the Maharashtra Government, two years before it was finally registered and started functioning.

Records available with NH indicate that Polysack Industrial Society was registered on April 4, 1989 while the plot was allotted to the Society on January 14, 1987, on a lease of 99 years. ₹99,000 was paid as premium by Polysack Industrial Society.

The office of Polysack Industrial Co-operative, having registration no NGP/CTY/PRD/1/518/88-89, was run from the house of Gadkari till 2003. In 2003 the society was unilaterally wound up by the Union Minister and the office stopped functioning.

Rathi, when contacted, explained the delay in filing the case by claiming that since all evidence had been destroyed, he had no basis to file the case earlier. However, in the past few years he was able to collect information through several RTI applications.

"It is a clear violation of rules, but nobody questioned him, including Mohan Bhagwat, who was himself a shareholder (bearing number 923) and Devendra Fadnavis(shareholder number 741) among others. Devendra Fadnavis's brother, Ashish Fadnavis was also a shareholder of the industrial society but he too maintained silence," he added.