Politics

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.

Dear Readers,
As an independent media platform, we do not take advertisements from governments and corporate houses. It is you, our readers, who have supported us on our journey to do honest and unbiased journalism. Please contribute, so that we can continue to do the same in future.
Some error occurred

Related posts

National Politics

Akhilesh Yadav Swipes At BJP Over Bihar Politics ‘August Kranti’

Sakeena Sayyed
akhilesh yadav swipe at bjp as doodh ki makkhi on bihar political drama
Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav said, “Like Bihar, the people of Uttar Pradesh will also throw out the BJP like a ‘doodh ki makkhi’.”

Mumbai: Samajwadi President Akhilesh Yadav reacted a day after JDU ended its tie with the BJP, on Wednesday saying that the socialists started an “August Kranti” on August 9 and taught a lesson to the BJP in Bihar now even the people of Uttar Pradesh will throw it away.

On the Centre’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign, Akhilesh Yadav said, “For the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP will forget the tricolour and will switch to Hindu-Muslim. The BJP has learned the policy of divide and rule from the British. People are well aware of these ideologies of the BJP.” Referring to a colloquial Hindi phrase he said people will throw BJP away from Uttar Pradesh.

“Like Bihar, the people of Uttar Pradesh will also throw out the BJP like a ‘doodh ki makkhi’ “, he said.

To commemorate 75 years of India’s independence, the central government has launched the “Har Ghar Tiranga” campaign, in which individuals are urged to fly the tricolour at their residences.

“The parent organisation of the BJP, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS, never took part in the liberation fight and never raised the Indian flag at its headquarters in Nagpur. These days, it is merely politicising the tricolour. The BJP is incapable of even showing basic respect for the tricolour, ” he added.

The BJP has done all in its power since taking office to crush the hopes of those who fought and gave their lives for an independent India. It has been ignoring the underprivileged and concentrating primarily on funding the treasuries of its corporate allies said the Samajwadi leader Akhilesh Yadav.

 

 

Related posts

News Hub