HC issues notice to ED on plea filed by Jacqueline Fernandez; hearing on Jan 29
PTC News Desk: The Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday in response to a petition filed by Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez seeking to quash the ECIR (FIR) and supplementary chargesheet filed by the agency in a money laundering case. The Rs. 200 crore money laundering case involves alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar.
The case has also been scheduled for the next hearing on January 29.
Fernandez was named as a co-accused in the ED's case. However, she has been named as a witness in the underlying offence, an extortion case filed by the Delhi police.
The ED's FIR stemmed from an extortion case filed by the Delhi police's economic offences wing (EOW) against Chandrasekhar in August last year for allegedly cheating and extorting money from Aditi Singh, the wife of former Religare Enterprises promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh.
The actress has filed a plea to quash the ECIR dated August 8, 2021, the second supplementary complaint dated August 17, 2022, and the proceedings that have resulted from them, claiming that the evidence filed by the ED proves she is an innocent victim of Chandrasekhar's maliciously targeted attack.
"There is absolutely no indication of her involvement in aiding him to launder his purportedly ill-gotten wealth," he said.
According to the plea, she was instead called as a prosecution witness in the EOW case.
“Throughout their interactions, the main accused consistently presented himself as a free individual. The Petitioner had no way of knowing that the main accused was actually incarcerated, as his conduct always resembled that of a person at liberty,” read the petition filed by the actor.
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