New Delhi, Jun 9 (UNI) The Delhi High Court would on Friday take up the plea filed by arrested RJD Rajya Sabha MP Amarendra Dhari Singh challenging the trial court’s order granting his 10 days custody to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged fertilizer scam.
A bench of Justice Rekha Palli posted the application of Singh for further hearing on June 11.
The court was posting the matter while noting ED's counsel wished to place some supporting judgments by Thursday after Singh's lawyer circulated certain judgments.
On June 3, the businessman-MP Singh has been arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
In his plea, Singh argued that the complaint dates back to April 2013 and the CBI registered an FIR for the alleged offenses of cheating, criminal conspiracy under the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act in May 2021.
The petition also prayed to set aside the trial court’s June 3 remand order, stating the special judge’s order suffers from complete non-application of mind and has been passed mechanically without proper appreciation of peculiar facts of the case, material on record, and the prevailing law.
Singh is a partner in Jyoti Group-- a firm involved in the case--which came under the scanner last month when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a case against IFFCO chairman U S Awasthi, former MD of Indian Potash Limited Parvinder Singh Gahlaut and their sons for alleged contortion in import of fertilizers and claiming subsidies via a web of companies.
He along with Rajiv Saxena, a chartered accountant, who was probed in the AgustaWestland scam, is one of the accused in the FIR filed by the CBI on May 17.
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