Congress leader Shivakumar, daughter arrives at ED office for questioning
India | September 12, 2019 12:07 ISTAishwarya, daughter of Congress leader D K Shivakumar arrived at the office of Enforcement Directorate office on September 2019.
Aishwarya, daughter of Congress leader D K Shivakumar arrived at the office of Enforcement Directorate office on September 2019.
Special judge Arvind Kumar allowed the Enforcement Directorate to quiz Puri for five more days.
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Special judge Sanjay Garg sent Puri to judicial custody. ED had arrested Puri on August 20 in the money laundering case arising out of the bank loan fraud case. The court had on Friday extended Puri's custodial remand by four days.
The former Karnataka cabinet minister's statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Former Karnataka Minister and senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday for over eight hours for the second consecutive day in a money laundering case and has been asked to appear again on Monday, officials said.
After being grilled for over five hours by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday, Congress leader DK Shivakumar appeared before the agency again on Saturday. ED is probing his alleged involvement in a money laundering case.
ED had arrested Puri on August 20 in the money laundering case arising out of the bank loan fraud case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday opposed the writ petition filed by Karnataka Congress legislator D.K. Shivakumar in the Karnataka High Court seeking protection from arrest by its officials for his alleged involvement in an alleged money laundering case, an official source said.
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it has attached over a dozen industrial plots, allocated to "close" associates of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and valued at Rs 30.34 crore, in connection with a money laundering case.
Raut's statement came a day after Shiv Sena chief and Raj's estranged cousin Uddhav Thackeray said that he believed nothing much would come out of the ED's probe. The Shiv Sena is a partner of the ruling BJP in Maharashtra and the Centre. Raj Thackeray, on the other hand, had campaigned against the BJP during the Lok Sabha polls.
Senior advocate KTS Tulsi, representing Vadra, the husband of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, had sought some time to file the rejoinder to ED's reply and said the documents were almost ready.
Justice Sunil Gaur, who is due to retire on Thursday, said an amendment in the law was needed to restrict the provisions of pre-arrest bail and make it inapplicable to offenders of high profile economic offences like the INX Media scam.
Earlier today, the Delhi High Court had dismissed Chidambaram's both anticipatory bail pleas in connection with the INX Media case.
According to the officials, Chidambaram has been asked to depose on August 23 before the investigating officer of the case at an Enforcement Directorate office in Delhi to record his statement.
On July 31, the 45-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam was questioned by the anti-corruption agency officials in connection with the alleged money laundering and income beyond means charges against her and her family.
The ED filed its case under the criminal section of Prevention Money Laundering Act (PMLA) taking cognisance of at least 26 FIRs registered against Khan by the UP police for alleged land grab.
The senior Congress leader was questioned for the second consecutive day by the Enforcement Directorate on Friday at the agency's office in Chandigarh. He was grilled under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), official sources said. "It's political vendetta," Hooda said. "I went to the ED office to record my statement," he added.
It was Sana Satish Babu, on whose complaint the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered a criminal FIR on charges of corruption against its former special director Rakesh Asthana during the infamous fight between the number one man in the agency -- the then CBI director Alok Verma -- and the number two, Asthana.
The application was filed in a pending petition in which Vadra sought quashing of the case on the ground that multiple investigations were held in "abuse of statutory power of investigation and therefore second or successive FIRs filed in connection with the same or connected cognisable offence alleged to have been committed in the course of the same transaction pursuant to the first FIR is liable to be quashed".
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