Suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain is being probed in reference to Delhi violence case. (File)
New Delhi:
Suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain has been despatched to judicial custody in reference to a money-laundering case associated to northeast Delhi violence, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted earlier than the Delhi Excessive Court docket right now.
Further Solicitor Common SV Raju, representing the ED, mentioned that Tahir Hussain has been despatched to judicial custody by a trial court docket right now and the company didn’t search his additional custody. Raju mentioned that Hussain has been handed over to Tihar Jail authorities.
A single-judge bench of Justice Yogesh Khanna, which was listening to Tahir Hussain’s plea towards a trial court docket order extending his ED remand within the cash laundering case, adjourned the matter for element arguments on November 24 after listening to the submissions.
The ED custody of Tahir Hussain, a key accused within the northeast Delhi violence which happened in February this yr, was earlier prolonged by three days. The accused had moved a plea within the Excessive Court docket claiming the extension of ED remand was unlawful.
Senior advocate KK Manon, representing Tahir Hussain, submitted that the order of prolonged three-day ED remand was unlawful and mentioned that he wished to argue on the regulation. He mentioned that the trial court docket has erred in deciding the ED”s software.
The financial offences wing had arrested Tahir Hussain in a cash laundering case and made him accused of assorted different fraudulent acts of dishonest, falsification/forgery of paperwork and felony conspiracy.
Advocate Amit Mahajan and Advocate Naveen Kumar Matra, who appeared for the ED in a trial court docket earlier, had submitted that accused has entered right into a felony conspiracy by fraudulently transferred cash from the accounts of many firms.
“The cash so obtained are proceeds of crime which have been then used for committing varied different scheduled offences. We’d like additional remand of him to confront him with a number of paperwork, and so on,” the ED counsels had mentioned.
Earlier, ED had submitted that accused has additionally been arrested in reference to northeast Delhi violence case. Legal professionals representing the ED had additionally submitted that scheduled offences are attracted within the current case and it’s suspected case of cash laundering.
The legal professionals had additionally submitted that ED has additionally carried out searches at varied premises and several other incriminating paperwork and digital units have been recovered and seized from the accused”s possessions.
Not too long ago, a Delhi court docket had taken cognizance on a chargesheet filed towards Tahir Hussain and others in a case associated to the homicide of Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma through the northeast Delhi violence in February this yr.
In line with the Delhi Police, Tahir Hussain is without doubt one of the prime accused in reference to northeast Delhi violence, during which not less than 53 folks misplaced their lives.
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