Court denies bail to ex-Maha home minister Anil Deshmukh in money laundering case
Mumbai Jan 18 PTI A special court here on Tuesday rejected a plea filed by former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh seeking default bail in an alleged money laundering case Deshmukh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate ED on November 2 2021 and is currently in judicial custodyIn his application the NCP leader had said the special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases did not take cognizance of the prosecution complaint charge sheet filed by the ED before remanding him in further judicial custodyAs the cognizance was not taken in the stipulated period of 60 days from the arrest he should get bail by default on technical grounds under section 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure CrPC the plea saidThe ED opposed this argument saying the charge sheet had been filed within the stipulated timeSpecial Judge R N Rokade on Tuesday rejected the NCP leaders plea As per section 167 if a charge sheet is not filed and its cognizance not taken within 60 days the accused can seek default bailBut the Central agencys contention was that the question of court taking cognizance of charge sheet was not pertinentDefault bail cannot be considered once the principal charge sheet and a supplementary one had been filed in time it added The ED had on December 29 2021 filed a 7000-page supplementary charge sheet against Deshmukh and his sonsIt had earlier filed a charge sheet against 14 others including Deshmukhs private secretary an additional collector-rank officer Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan ShindeThe ED launched a separate probe against Deshmukh after the CBI registered a case against the senior NCP leader in April 2021 on the charges of corruptionThe EDs case is that while serving as Maharashtra home minister Deshmukh through now dismissed police official Sachin Waze collected Rs 470 crore from various bars in MumbaiDeshmukh and his family members owned several shell companies which were used to launder this money and divert it to educational trusts controlled by the family the ED allegedWaze an assistant police inspector with Mumbai Crime Branch was arrested in March 2021 in the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran murder case Following Wazes arrest then Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh was transferredSingh then accused Deshmukh of asking police officers to collect Rs 100 crore a month from bars and restaurants in MumbaiDeshmukh while denying these allegations resigned as minister PTI SP KRK KRK KRK
Mumbai Jan 18 PTI A special court here on Tuesday rejected a plea filed by former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh seeking default bail in an alleged money laundering case Deshmukh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate ED on November 2 2021 and is currently in judicial custodyIn his application the NCP leader had said the special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases did not take cognizance of the prosecution complaint charge sheet filed by the ED before remanding him in further judicial custodyAs the cognizance was not taken in the stipulated period of 60 days from the arrest he should get bail by default on technical grounds under section 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure CrPC the plea saidThe ED opposed this argument saying the charge sheet had been filed within the stipulated timeSpecial Judge R N Rokade on Tuesday rejected the NCP leaders plea As per section 167 if a charge sheet is not filed and its cognizance not taken within 60 days the accused can seek default bailBut the Central agencys contention was that the question of court taking cognizance of charge sheet was not pertinentDefault bail cannot be considered once the principal charge sheet and a supplementary one had been filed in time it added The ED had on December 29 2021 filed a 7000-page supplementary charge sheet against Deshmukh and his sonsIt had earlier filed a charge sheet against 14 others including Deshmukhs private secretary an additional collector-rank officer Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan ShindeThe ED launched a separate probe against Deshmukh after the CBI registered a case against the senior NCP leader in April 2021 on the charges of corruptionThe EDs case is that while serving as Maharashtra home minister Deshmukh through now dismissed police official Sachin Waze collected Rs 470 crore from various bars in MumbaiDeshmukh and his family members owned several shell companies which were used to launder this money and divert it to educational trusts controlled by the family the ED allegedWaze an assistant police inspector with Mumbai Crime Branch was arrested in March 2021 in the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran murder case Following Wazes arrest then Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh was transferredSingh then accused Deshmukh of asking police officers to collect Rs 100 crore a month from bars and restaurants in MumbaiDeshmukh while denying these allegations resigned as minister PTI SP KRK KRK KRK
