Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez has approached the Delhi Excessive Courtroom searching for to quash the FIR in opposition to her within the Enforcement Directorate’s Rs 200 crore cash laundering case involving alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar.
The petition, which is prone to come for listening to through the week, has additionally sought to quash the second supplementary cost sheet filed by the ED within the case and associated proceedings pending earlier than a trial court docket right here.
On the outset it’s submitted that proof filed by the Directorate of Enforcement would show that the petitioner (Fernandez) is an harmless sufferer of Sukesh Chandrasekhar’s maliciously focused assault. There’s completely no indication that she had any involvement in anyway in aiding him to launder his purportedly ill-gotten wealth. Therefore, she can’t be prosecuted for the offences underneath Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act, she submitted within the petition.
It stated the prosecution criticism (cost sheet) filed in opposition to her confirmed that nowhere it has been alleged that she had the data in regards to the nefarious actions of accused no. 1 (Chandrasekhar) in extorting cash from complainant Aditi Singh.
The whole criticism is silent about even a distant allegation of information as attributed to the petitioner. It’s unattainable to recommend that the petitioner knowingly engaged in any of the actions that’s right this moment punished by Part 3 of the PMLA, the plea stated.
Fernandez stated she has been introduced as a prosecution witness within the predicate offence wherein the FIR was lodged by the Particular Cell of Delhi Police and added that her assertion has been recorded in that case which results in a beneficial conclusion in her favour.
This helps the rivalry that she had no data in anyway of the predicate offence dedicated by Chandrasekhar and his associates, she stated.
As soon as the investigating company, in its discretion, has introduced the petitioner as a prosecution witness within the predicate offence, it logically follows that any proceedings arising as a consequence of the predicate offence ought to be quashed, the plea stated.
It alleged that ED has acted in a partisan method whereas arraigning her as an accused within the cash laundering case.
The ED has given a clear chit to Nora Fatehi (actress) regardless of it being an admitted truth on report that her member of the family obtained a BMW automobile from Sukesh Chandrasekhar on her directions. It’s of significance to notice that the very fact of Nora Fatehi receiving presents from Sukesh Chandrasekhar has been introduced to ED underneath the pinnacle dissipation of proceeds of crime’, it submitted.
The plea added that ED is enjoying cold and warm on the similar time and in equivalent details, Fernandez has been arraigned as an accused.
Aditi Singh has been recognized as the unique complainant and artists like Nora Fatehi whose member of the family obtained a BMW automobile, and different artists like Nikita Tamboli, Chahatt Khanna and Sophia Singh who bodily visited the Tihar jail premises haven’t been arraigned as an accused. This displays malafide investigation in opposition to the current petitioner, it submitted.
Fernandez is an accused in a Rs 200 crore cash laundering case lodged in opposition to Chandrashekar.
She has appeared earlier than the ED for questioning within the cash laundering investigation in opposition to Chandrasekhar and others.
The Delhi Police had earlier registered an FIR in opposition to Chandrashekar for allegedly duping the spouses of former promoters of Ranbaxy, Shivinder Singh, and Malvinder Singh, of Rs 200 crore apart from ongoing investigations in opposition to him in a number of instances throughout the nation.
Chandrasekhar and his spouse Leena Paulose, dealing with proceedings in a cash laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate, had been earlier arrested by Delhi Police, together with others.
The police have additionally invoked the Maharashtra Management of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) within the case.
The Delhi Police had alleged that Paulose and Chandrasekhar together with others used hawala routes, created shell corporations to park the cash earned from proceeds of crime. PTI SKV SKV DV DV 12191337
