Mumbai Jan 27 PTI A special court here on Friday took cognisance of charge-sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate ED against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh and his two sons in connection with a money laundering case Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA court judge R N Rokade issued process against the accused after taking cognisance of the charge sheet In December last year the ED had filed the 7000-page supplementary charge sheet in connection with the case Besides Deshmukh it had named named his two sons as accused in the case Prior to that the probe agency had filed a charge sheet against 14 accused including Deshmukhs private secretary an additional collector-rank officer Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde Deshmukh was arrested by the ED on November 1 last year in connection with the case and is currently in judicial custody The ED had launched a probe against Deshmukh and his associates after the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI filed an FIR against the NCP leader on April 21 last year on charges of corruption and misuse of official position The EDs case is that while serving as state home minister Deshmukh allegedly misused his official position and through Sachin Waze a police officer who has been dismissed from service after his arrest in the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran killing cases collected Rs 470 crore from various bars in Mumbai The money was laundered to Nagpur-based Shri Sai Shikshan Sanstha an educational trust controlled by the Deshmukh family Both Palande and Shinde had played an important role in circulating and laundering the unaccounted money the agency has alleged PTI AVI NP NP

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 Dec 29 PTI The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in connection with a money laundering case The probe agency filed the 7000-page charge sheet which also names Deshmukhs sons as accused in the case before a special court here assigned to hear matters related to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA The ED had earlier filed a charge sheet against 14 accused including Deshmukhs private secretary an additional collector-rank officer Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde Deshmukh was arrested by the ED on November 1 this year in connection with the case and is currently in judicial custody The ED had launched a probe against Deshmukh and his associates after the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI filed an FIR against the senior NCP leader on April 21 this year on charges of corruption and misuse of official position The EDs case is that while serving as state home minister Deshmukh allegedly misused his official position and through Sachin Waze a police officer who has been dismissed from service after his arrest in the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran killing cases collected Rs 470 crore from various bars in Mumbai The money was laundered to Nagpur-based Shri Sai Shikshan Sansthan an educational trust controlled by the Deshmukh family Both Palande and Shinde had played an important role in circulating and laundering the unaccounted money according to the anti-money laundering agency Deshmukh who resigned from the post of state home minister earlier this year has repeatedly denied the charges against him PTI AVI GK GK

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 7 (ANI): A Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail pleas of Sanjeev Palande and Kundan Shinde, private secretary and personal assistant respectively of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in connection with a money laundering case.

Mumbai : Anil Deshmukh, the former home minister of Maharashtra, was sent to judicial custody for 14 days in a money laundering case. Deshmukh was presented before a holiday court on Saturday, which sent him to judicial remand till November 19. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) last Monday after 12 hours of questioning. The agency is probing the ₹100 crore extortion case against Deshmukh based on an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Mumbai : Anil Deshmukh, the former home minister of Maharashtra, was sent to judicial custody for 14 days in a money laundering case. Deshmukh was presented before a holiday court on Saturday, which sent him to judicial remand till November 19. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) last Monday after 12 hours of questioning. The agency is probing the ₹100 crore extortion case against Deshmukh based on an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Mumbai : Anil Deshmukh, the former home minister of Maharashtra, was sent to judicial custody for 14 days in a money laundering case. Deshmukh was presented before a holiday court on Saturday, which sent him to judicial remand till November 19. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) last Monday after 12 hours of questioning. The agency is probing the ₹100 crore extortion case against Deshmukh based on an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

A special holiday court here on Saturday remanded former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in 14-day judicial custody in connection with an alleged money laundering case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the case, sought his remand for nine more days, but the court refused the probe agency’s plea and sent him to judicial custody. Deshmukh […]

Mumbai Sep 27 PTI Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukhs then personal secretary PS Sanjeev Palande on Monday told a special court here through his lawyer that the Enforcement Directorate ED had arrested him in the money laundering case without allowing him to respond to the notice issued to him Palande an additional collector-rank officer was arrested by the ED on June 26 in connection with the money laundering case involving Deshmukh Palande who is currently in judicial custody recently filed an application seeking bail Arguing for Palande his advocate Shekhar Jagtap on Monday told the court that the former was taken into custody the same day his house was raided Jagtap argued the ED arrested Palande without even allowing him to respond to the notice issued to him He further said the ED had raided Palandes residence on the same day as Deshmukhs house and offices Both Palande and Deshmukh were issued notices under section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure but Palande was not given a chance to respond to the notice and was arrested Jagtap argued The applicant Palande was picked up by the ED as if some incriminating material was found at his house he said adding that Palande was an honest bureaucrat and there is no evidence of a single penny coming to him Another accused arrested in the case Kundan Shinde who was working as Deshmukhs assistant PA had also filed an application seeking bail Shindes advocate Ejaz Khan argued that his client was incriminated in the case only based on the statement given by dismissed Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze Khan argued that Wazes statement cannot be relied upon as his bonafide are in question as he is an accused and behind bars in another case The court will continue hearing the bail pleas on September 29 The ED had initiated a probe against Deshmukh and his associates after the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI filed an FIR against the NCP leader on April 21 on charges of corruption and the misuse of the official position The federal anti-money laundering agency has so far arrested two persons in the case namely Sanjeev Palande and Kundan Shinde The agency had last month submitted its prosecution complaint equivalent to a chargesheet against the duo before a special court The CBI had lodged its FIR against Deshmukh after it conducted a preliminary enquiry against the NCP leader following an order from the High Court on April 5 Deshmukh had resigned from the post of the home minister on April 5 but had denied any wrongdoing PTI SP NSK NSK