A local court in Mumbai on Friday directed former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh to appear before it on November 16 in an alleged mone...
A local court in Mumbai on Friday directed former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh to appear before it on November 16 in an alleged money laundering case, reported Bar and Bench. The court issued a process, or a legal notice, to Deshmukh on a plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate.
In its plea, the Enforcement Directorate said that the Nationalist Congress Party leader failed to appear before the agency for questioning in the case even after it issued five summons to him. Deshmukh had skipped all the summons and moved the Bombay High Court seeking to quash them.
“The summons were served upon the accused [Deshmukh]; inspite of that he has willfuly neglected to appear before complainant,” the lawyers appearing for the central agency argued.
The Enforcement Directorate claimed that Deshmukh committed offence under Section 174 of the Indian Penal Code and sought the court’s intervention. Under this section, a court can direct action against a person not obeying a summons, notice, order or proclamation from a public servant.
On Friday, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate RM Nirlekar said that prima facie case has been made out against Deshmukh and issued the process.
The Enforcement Directorate is investigating Deshmukh’s role in the alleged money laundering case based on a First Information Report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
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