The Court said that as per the statements of witnesses, Gokhale not only received money not only from the wife of the complainant, but also from 1,767 persons. These amounts, the Court noted, were collected using social media and most transactions were online.
“There are many transactions, which appear to have been done on prima-facie going through the bank account statement, so it cannot be denied that some transactions might be done for his personal usage or not, which is a question of fact and can only be decided by evidence at the time of trial and not at the stage of investigation when the charge sheet is yet to be filed,” the judge observed.
Source: Barandbench
