[1][2] In recent years, Shetty had used the RTI Act to expose large scale land scams involving the leading real estate firm IRB Infrastructure and its subsidiary Aryan.
In 2009, he filed a complaint that forged documents had been used by these firms to acquire large swathes of land in the Taje and Pimploli villages off the Pune-Mumbai highway.
[4] The company blamed land brokers for the irregularities,[5] and the planned IRB township project was eventually scrapped.
[4] The subsequent police investigations proposed a different theory for the murder, ignoring the IRB infrastructure association.
[11] In January 2013, CBI obtained permission to conduct polygraph tests on Mhaiskar, his attorney Kulkarni, and eight others,[12] leading to a 15% drop in the company's share price.