Earlier Tahir Hussain was despatched on six-day ED remand by the court docket docket (File)
New Delhi:
A Delhi court docket docket on Monday extended till September 10 the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody of suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in reference to a money laundering case related to the northeast Delhi violence.
The ED has made him accused of money laundering and diverse totally different fraudulent acts of dishonest, falsification/forgery of paperwork and felony conspiracy. Earlier he was despatched on six-day ED remand by the court docket docket.
The monetary offences watchdog had on Saturday sought further nine-day remand of Tahir Hussain inside the case, following which Additional Durations Select Amitabh Rawat had reserved its order inside the matter.
The ED had produced Hussain by video conference on Saturday and submitted that it had acquired his bodily custody on August 31 in its place of August 29 on account of a lot of formalities and medical testing of the accused.
Within the meantime, Advocate KK Manon, exhibiting for Tahir Hussain had strongly opposed the ED’s further remand utility and cited diverse judgements on this regards.
Advocate Amit Mahajan and Advocate Naveen Kumar Matra, exhibiting for the ED, had submitted that accused has entered proper right into a felony conspiracy by fraudulently transferred money from the accounts of many firms.
“The money so obtained are proceeds of crime which had been then used for committing diverse totally different scheduled offences. We wish further remand of him to confront him with a lot of paperwork, and plenty of others,” the ED counsels had acknowledged.
Earlier, ED had submitted that accused has moreover been arrested earlier in reference to northeast Delhi violence case. Attorneys representing the ED had moreover submitted that scheduled offences are attracted inside the present case and it is suspected case of money laundering.
The authorized professionals had moreover submitted that ED has moreover carried out searches at diverse premises and a lot of different incriminating paperwork and digital devices had been recovered and seized from the accused’s possessions.
Not too way back, a Delhi Court docket docket had taken cognizance on a chargesheet filed in opposition to AAP suspended councillor Tahir Hussain and others in a case related to the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma all through the northeast Delhi violence in February this yr.
In accordance with the Delhi Police, Tahir Hussain is no doubt one of many prime accused in reference to northeast Delhi violence, throughout which a minimum of 53 people misplaced their lives.
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