Greeva Garg–
Delhi High Court has asked the director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to explain how the grounds of arrest are conveyed in the matter of the Fertilizer Scam.
The question sought information regarding how an arrested person has been informed about the arrest grounds. It also includes grounds regarding the status of an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) to the concerned parties in the probe conducted by the agency.
A vacation bench headed by Justice Mukta Gupta issued the order while hearing the plea of ED challenging the Court’s previous order to provide the copy of ECIR in the inquiry, which the agency conducted, to the RJD Rajya Sabha MP Amarendra Dhari Singh.
He was arrested in a money laundering case in the alleged Fertilizer scam.
The Court asked Singh to respond to the ED’s plea concerning setting aside the Trial Court’s order issued on July 15.
“In the meantime, an affidavit of the Director, Enforcement Directorate will be filed on record indicating the status of the ECIR in an investigation carried on by the petitioner and whether the same is merely some records, some substantive information therein for the petitioner to start the investigation thereon before the filing of the complaint case,” the Judge said.
The matter in which Singh is accused is an alleged Fertilizer scam linked to the IFFCO and India Potash Limited (IPL).
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered this matter under the Indian Penal code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act in May 2021.
The ED registered case against Singh related to his crime in the Fertilizer Scam on May 20, and later, he was arrested. Currently, Amarendra Dhari Singh is in judicial custody.
