Money laundering case | ED tells Bombay HC it won't arrest Sameer Wankhede till March 1
The Hindu
The ED told the Bombay High Court that it will extend till March 1 its previous statement that it would not arrest Sameer Wankhede, the former zonal director of the NCB, in a money laundering case.
The Enforcement Directorate on February 20 told the Bombay High Court that it will extend till March 1 its previous statement that it would not arrest Sameer Wankhede, the former zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), in a money laundering case.
A division bench of Justices P D Naik and N R Borkar accepted the statement and posted Mr. Wankhede's petition against the case on March 1.
The bench directed the probe agency to produce a copy of the ECIR (complaint) on that day.
The ED registered a money laundering case against Mr. Wankhede after taking cognisance of a first information report (FIR) by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in an alleged ₹25-crore bribe demand from superstar Shah Rukh Khan's family to spare his son in a drugs case.
Earlier this month, Mr. Wankhede filed a petition in the High Court seeking to quash the ED's case and, through an interim order, sought protection from any coercive action and a stay on the probe.
The probe agency had last week said it would not arrest Mr. Wankhede till February 20.
The ED's advocate, Sandesh Patil, told the court on February 20 that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta will appear in the case and sought an adjournment.
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