India, June 12 -- After the appeal by Amadea Enterprises LLP for a stamp duty waiver in the controversial Mundhwa land deal was rejected by the inspector-general of registration (IGR), the matter has reached the office of revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule.

The company, where Parth Pawar, Rajya Sabha MP and son of deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar, is the majority stakeholder, is seeking a Rs.21-crore waiver in stamp duty and penalties in the purchase of a land parcel in Mundhwa in Pune.

The appeal is among the first cases to be placed before the revenue minister after the Maharashtra Stamp Act was amended in December last year, empowering the minister to hear such appeals.

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