The Rouse Avenue court on Friday dismissed an application by Chartered Accountant Tejinder Pal Singh to turn approver in a money laundering case related to the Delhi Jal Board.
"PMLA is Pradhan Mantri ki Lak Aankh. It has nothing to do with Prevention of Money Laundering Act. It means you can send them over to ED who can do whatever they wish to do," Sibal said in a free-wheeling conversation with ANI.
Recently, the trial court has took cognizance of the chargesheet filed by Special Cell of Delhi Police against News Portal Newsclick PPK and its founder and Editor-in-Chief, Prabir Purkayastha, in a case.
Delhi Rouse Avenue Court has allowed Magunta Raghav Reddy, the son of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party's (YSRCP) MP from Ongole, Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, to turn approver in the CBI case related to Delhi's excise policy case.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea seeking to cancel the bail plea of businessman Rajeev Saxena, accused-turned-approver in the AgustaWestland chopper deal case.
The Rouse Avenue Court on Friday granted permission to approver Dinesh Arora to travel to Barcelona, Spain, to celebrate his 25th marriage anniversary.
The approver, an accomplice who decides to testify against the co-accused in exchange for a pardon, is subject to examination and treatment under the CrPC.
The Delhi Police's Special Cell, in its FIR against Purkayastha, stated that the People's Dispatch Portal, owned and maintained by PPK Newsclick Studio Pvt Ltd., has been used for intentionally peddling false narratives through paid news in place of crores of illegally routed foreign fund
The Delhi Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday allowed two accused, Raghav Magunta Reddy and Dinesh Arora, to become approver in the Delhi excise policy money laundering case. The Court also pardoned them in the case while allowing their plea to become approver.
According to ED, considered close to jailed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia, Arora is the 13th persons arrested so far in the case by the the Enforcement Directorate. Last year, a city court had allowed the CBI's request to make Arora an approver in the case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed the Rouse Avenue Court that it has written to Immigration authorities requesting to withdraw/close LOC issued against businessman Dinesh Arora who has become an approver in the Delhi Excise policy case.