Sadaf Modak

A complaint was filed at Arvi police station in Wardha district in January on the complaint of a teenager’s mother, who had alleged that her minor daughter was made to undergo an abortion at Kadam Hospital. The victim was five months pregnant.

Pravin was arrested in February and a chargesheet was filed against him as well as HDIL promoters – father and son Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan – last week.

On Wednesday afternoon, CBI officers took Deshmukh into custody from the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai, where he has been lodged since last November.

The central agency could not arrest Deshmukh, as he is admitted to state-run J J hospital with a dislocated shoulder, which CBI said was “deliberate and intentional” to avoid arrest.

A complaint was filed in the case against Solapur-resident Shrimant Kore on orders of the Bombay High Court in 2016.

The ED sought their custody for two weeks, claiming that they had indulged in money laundering of proceeds of crime attained from usurping two properties of 6.5 acre in Nagpur.

On Thursday, the CBI moved an application before the special court requesting that an order be issued other courts in whose custody the accused currently are.

The central agency's 180-day deadline to file a chargesheet ends on March 31. If the extension is not granted and chargesheet is not filed within March 31, two accused who continue to be in jail, will be entitled for default bail. The other 18 are already out on bail.

Court records show that there are nearly 80 cases filed under PMLA from 2008 till 2022. So far, in only three instances has the case concluded.

The CBI court had earlier this week sought an explanation from the Taloja jail superintendent on how Wadhawan was shifted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital without its permission. On Thursday, the superintendent sought time to submit its response.

But in his pre-arrest bail plea, Tripathi has claimed that a complaint was filed against him with malafide intent as he had not succumbed to the pressure of mediators of illegal hawala operators "working as Angadia Association", and had directed action against them.

Last month, the special court designated under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (P-MLA) had issued notice to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital after prison officials filed a complaint alleging that Wadhawan was admitted to the hospital to avoid jail.

The accused, Naveed Shaikh, was arrested in 2021 under sections pertaining to possession and trafficking of counterfeit currency. In his bail plea, Shaikh had submitted that continued incarceration during the Covid-19 pandemic would have an impact on his health and life.

A chargesheet was filed earlier this month against six persons arrested in January after a woman filed a complaint on January 1 on finding her photograph, along with those of other Muslim women, on an online portal with objectionable comments, including talk of their “auction”.

Dheeraj and Kapil are in judicial custody since 2020 after being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the Yes Bank alleged fraud case.

The CBI claims that Mukerjea had murdered Sheena in 2012. Mukerjea has been behind bars since 2015 on charges including murder, with the trial against her and two others underway.

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A division bench of Justice Prasanna Varale and Surendra Tavade heard the plea last week argued by lawyer Gayatri Singh, representing Bhelke.

A letter was sent to the court from the Superintendent of Taloja Central Jail stating that Wadhawan has been admitted to the private hospital since April 6, 2021.

The court's order is conditional giving Pillai a choice to leave their shared residence, with directions to Paes to pay monthly rent of Rs 50,000, apart from monthly maintenance of Rs 1 lakh, to her.

Nawab Malik’s lawyers, opposing his remand, told the court that since the Prevention of Money Laundering (PMLA) Act was not in effect when the deal was done in 1999, he could not be charged retrospectively under the Act.

The prosecution has not brought on record an overt act of the accused which will amount to insulting the modesty of the victim, said the court as it acquitted a 22-year-old man of sexual harassment charges.

Late on Wednesday evening, Nawab Malik was sent to the ED's custody till March 3.

Jail authorities informed him that with physical mulaqats resuming, the facilities for video calls and phone calls – started in the state during the pandemic in March 2020 -- cannot be continued.