Bollywood Actress Jacqueline Fernandez has moved to the Delhi High Court for quashing the FIR lodged against her in the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Rs 200 crore money laundering case.
The Delhi Police earlier registered an FIR against Chandrashekar for allegedly duping the spouses of former promoters of Ranbaxy, Shivinder Singh, and Malvinder Singh, of Rs 200 crore besides ongoing investigations against him for involving in several cases.
“At the outset it is submitted that evidence filed by the Directorate of Enforcement would prove that the petitioner (Fernandez) is an innocent victim of Sukesh Chandrasekhar’s maliciously targeted attack. There is absolutely no indication that she had any involvement whatsoever in aiding him tolaunder his purportedly ill-gotten wealth. Hence, she cannot be prosecuted for the offences under Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act,” the actress submitted in the petition.
The petition claimed that once the investigating agency has presented Fernandez as a prosecution witness in the predicate offence, any subsequent proceedings arising from the predicate offence should be quashed. The petition also alleges that the ED acted in a partisan manner by arraigning her as an accused while giving a clean chit to others.
“The entire complaint is silent about even a remote allegation of knowledge as attributed to thepetitioner. It is impossible to suggest that the petitioner knowingly engaged in any of the activities that is today punished by Section 3 of the PMLA,” the plea highlighted.
The petition, is likely to come for hearing during the week, has also sought to quash the second supplementary charge sheet filed by the ED in the case and related proceedings pending before a trial court in Delhi.
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