Shivangi Prakash-
Published on: August 17,2021 16:25 IST
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is investigating former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh for suspected extortion and money laundering, is expected to issue further summons in the case.
After the hearing on Anil Deshmukh’s special leave petition before the Supreme Court on Monday, the ED may now ask him to join the probe.
The Supreme Court bench hearing Anil Deshmukh’s petition for interim relief from any coercive action against him and a stay on the ED inquiry did not grant it.
After the CBI filed a FIR against him in the Rs 100 crore extortion cases, Anil Deshmukh was arrested by the ED. The case was filed after the Bombay High Court ordered a preliminary probe after hearing petitions filed in the High Court requesting an investigation into Deshmukh.
Sanjeev Palande, Anil Deshmukh’s PS, and Kundan Shinde, Anil Deshmukh’s PA, were arrested by ED officials in June.
The ED also discovered a trail of Rs 4.18 crore extorted by Sachin Vaze and laundered through shell firms to Anil Deshmukh and his family’s educational trust in Nagpur.
Meanwhile, the CBI searched the homes of Mumbai Police DCP Raju Bhujbal and ACP Sanjay Patil, as well as the homes of various intermediaries, in Mumbai and other locations.
Recently, the ED executed investigations at Anil Deshmukh’s home and a hotel in Nagpur.
Advocate Kamlesh Ghumre, representing Anil Deshmukh in Supreme Court on Monday, said, “The special writ petition of Anil Deshmukh was heard at Supreme Court. The SC has not dismissed the petition of Deshmukh. The SC observed that since there are alternate remedies, especially in the case of stay on investigation and no coercive action so therefore the petitioner including Deshmukh should first approach appropriate Courts for these reliefs which are there as per criminal procedure code. So therefore, honourable SC has only observed that Deshmukh may approach appropriate Courts for these reliefs as per the criminal procedure Court.”
The ED had issued four summonses to Anil Deshmukh and his son, but he had failed to attend on any of them. Deshmukh stated in a video that when his appeal is heard by the Supreme Court, he will stand in front of agency officials.