Court Reserves Order on Jacqueline Fernandez’s Bail, Asks ED Why It Has Not Arrested Actor Yet
A Delhi courtroom docket on Friday rapped the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for adopting a pick-and-pick out policy, and requested why the business enterprise had now no longer arrested actor Jacqueline Fernandez no matter issuing a lookout round towards her in a Rs 2 hundred crore money-laundering case regarding conman Sukesh Chandrashekar.
Special decide Shailendra Malik, who had in advance granted Fernandez intervening time bail, reserved his order for Friday at the bail plea. Arguments from the attorneys acting for Fernandez in addition to the ED had been heard on Thursday. On the ED’s submission that Fernandez can break out the u . s . without problems as she isn’t quick of money, the courtroom docket wondered why the actor changed into now no longer arrested so far.
The business enterprise informed the courtroom docket that it has issued a lookout round (LOC) on airports to prevent the actor from leaving the u . s .. “Why haven’t you (ED) arrested Jacqueline but in the course of the research no matter issuing an LOC? Other accused are in jail. Why undertake a pick-and-pick out policy,” the courtroom docket requested the probe business enterprise.
The accused has sought bail, announcing there has been no want for her custody because the research is already entire and the chargesheet has been filed.The courtroom docket had on September 26 granted intervening time bail on a non-public bond of Rs 50,000. The courtroom docket had on August 31 taken awareness of a supplementary chargesheet filed through the ED and requested Fernandez to seem earlier than the courtroom docket.
Fernandez, who changed into summoned through the ED numerous instances in reference to the research, has been named as an accused for the primary time withinside the supplementary chargesheet. The ED’s in advance chargesheet and a supplementary chargesheet did now no longer point out her as an accused. The documents, however, stated the info of the statements recorded through Fernandez and fellow actor Nora Fatehi.
