Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh was arrested early on Tuesday by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, PT...
Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh was arrested early on Tuesday by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, PTI reported.
Deshmukh, a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, which is a member of the ruling coalition government in Maharashtra, was arrested after being questioned by the central agency for over 12 hours, according to The Hindu.
On Monday, the former Maharashtra minister appeared before the Enforcement Directorate as he was summoned for the sixth time. Before that, he had skipped the summons five times.
The former Maharashtra minister will be produced before a court on Tuesday. “We cooperated in the investigation related to a case involving Rs 4.5 crores,” Deshmukh’s lawyer Inderpal Singh, according to ANI. “We will oppose his remand when he is produced before the court.”
The politician had in March been accused by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh of coercing police officers to extort money on his behalf from the owners of bars and restaurants in the city.
Deshmukh had repeatedly denied the accusations, but he resigned from the Maharashtra Cabinet on April 5 after the Bombay High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct a preliminary inquiry against him.
The investigation agency is probing Deshmukh for exercising “undue influence” over the transfer and postings of...
