July 06, 2025 8:04 am
Bhandari's legal team, while opposing the ED's move to get him declared a fugitive offender, claimed that its "client's stay could not be called illegal in the UK as he has a legal right to reside there"
January 17, 2023 6:12 pm
The Indian government's extradition request for Mr. Bhandari had been certified by then U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel in June 2020 and he was arrested on an extradition warrant the following month that year
November 08, 2022 11:52 pm
Bhandari is being investigated in multiple cases by the Delhi Police, Income Tax Department, CBI, and Enforcement Directorate (ED). He first came under the scanner in 2016, when IT raided his premises in connection with undeclared assets allegedly held by him abroad.
July 02, 2020 5:41 am
Sources said the case was registered based on a reference sent by the ED to CBI last year when ED was probing an alleged London property associated with Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra.
June 22, 2019 6:51 pm
Pilatus dishonestly and fraudulently signed a Pre- Contract Integrity Pact on November 12, 2010 with the Defence Ministry, deliberately concealing the facts about service provider agreement with Bhandari, the agency alleged.
June 22, 2019 1:14 pm
CBI has also booked unidentified officials of the Indian Air Force, the Defence Ministry and Switzerland-based Pilatus Aircraft Limited in the case.
February 26, 2019 4:40 am
A Delhi court in January 2018 had declared Bhandari a proclaimed offender in an Official Secrets Act case.
January 02, 2018 2:06 am
Bhandari is facing a case of alleged violation of the Official Secrets Act and is suspected to have fled the country.
June 02, 2017 3:11 am
The Income Tax Department had booked Bhandari under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015.
June 01, 2017 6:22 pm
The ED has attached assets worth Rs 21 crore of Sanjay Bhandari in connection with a money laundering probe against him. The Income Tax Department had booked Bhandari under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015.





