Former DGP of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Sanjay Barve (now Mumbai police commissioner) did "not notice" a VIDC report of March 26, 2018 filed in response to a query by SP Amravati to the Water Resource Department (WRD), the fresh affidavit in the multi-crore irrigation scam stated. The affidavit was filed by DGP Param Bir Singh before the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court on December 19.

"At the time when the said affidavit was prepared and filed, none of the enquiry/investigating officers, enquiring/investigating the case had submitted any report relating to the role of Ajit Pawar. Therefore, Sanjay Barve did not have the advantage of actual record and material collected by the investigating officers, which is now available," Singh said in the affidavit.