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PMLA case: High Court grants bail to Aslam Wani

Delhi High Court

New Delhi | The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to alleged hawala dealer Mohammad Aslam Wani, arrested in a money laundering case involving Kashmiri separatist Shabir Shah.

Justice Najmi Waziri granted relief to Wani, who has been in jail since he was arrested in 2017.

The court directed him to furnish a personal bond of Rs 3 lakh and two sureties of the like amount.

Wani was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), with the help of Jammu and Kashmir Police, from Srinagar on August 6, 2017 and is currently in judicial custody. Shabir Shah was arrested by the agency from Srinagar on July 26, 2017.

The ED had opposed Wani’s bail plea saying the investigation was still going on. It said there was an apprehension that if released, Wani may flee from justice.

A trial court had earlier denied bail to Wani in the decade-old case.

Wani was earlier apprehended on August 26, 2005, with the ED claiming that Rs 63 lakh had been recovered from him.

Advocate M S Khan, appearing for Wani, had sought bail after the Supreme Court set aside all orders by which bail to an accused was denied due to a stringent condition in money laundering cases and directed that such cases be remanded back to the respective courts to be heard on merit.

Khan had said a 2010 trial court judgement clearing Wani of terror funding charges in 2005 case, based on which the current money laundering case was lodged in 2007, was later confirmed by the Delhi High Court.

The ED had claimed that Wani had not cooperated in the probe and the money trail was yet to be ascertained.

In September 2017, the agency filed a charge sheet against Wani and Shah, whose bail application in the case was also dismissed on August 22, the same year.

The ED’s action against the two was in pursuance of the August 2005 case in which the Delhi Police’s Special Cell had arrested Wani, who is alleged to have claimed he had passed on Rs 2.25 crore to Shah.

The agency had registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against Shah and Wani.

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I Don’t Want To Be Amit Shah’s Hema Malini: Jayant Chaudhary On BJP’s Offer To Join

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Lucknow: Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh elections, RLD Chief Jayantt Chaudhary made a controversial remark. Addressing supporters ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022, Chaudhary said BJP has no love for me and “I don’t want to be Hema Malini.” Chaudhary slammed BJP by highlighting farmer deaths and the Lakhimpur Kheri case and took it out on BJP for their misgovernance.

Chaudhary made sarcastic remarks on Shah during his meeting with the Jat leaders of western UP said that Jayant Chaudhary has chosen the “wrong home”. Shah’s remark was an apparent reference to the RLD chief forming a pre-poll alliance with Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party.

Addressing supporters ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022, Chaudhary said BJP has no love for me and “I don’t want to be Hema Malini”.

The RLD chief took aim at the BJP over the farmers’ deaths during the over year-long farm bill protests. Chaudhary also hit out at the ruling saffron party over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence incident and reiterated his demand for the resignation of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni.

Chaudhary made sarcastic remarks after Shah during his meeting with the Jat leaders of western UP said that Jayant Chaudhary has chosen the “wrong home”. Shah’s remark was an apparent reference to the RLD chief forming a pre-poll alliance with Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party which has emerged as the main challenger to the BJP in the upcoming UP elections 2022.

Notably, following Shah’s meeting with the Jat leaders on January 26, BJP MP Parvesh Verma, who also attended the meeting said, “We have suggested that people of the Jat community talk to Jayant Chaudhary. Doors of the BJP are always open”.

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