Anil Deshmukh sent to ED's custody till Nov 6; Ex-Maha HM allowed home food & medicines

In a big development, a Mumbai court on Tuesday sent former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to Enforcement Directorate's custody till vember 6. ED had produced ex-Maharashtra Home Minister before a special holiday court after his arrest following a marathon grilling on Monday night. ncy had sought his custody for 14 days in connection with money laundering case.

While arguing in court, Anil Deshmukh's lawyer highlighted that ED had submitted both in Bombay High Court and Supreme Court that his client was t named as an accused in money laundering case. "Bombay High Court had asked CBI to investigate. one asked you (ED) to investigate. You came on your own," Deshmukh's counsel Vikram Chaudhary said. 

On or hand, ASG Anil Singh, representing ED, said that ncy had strong evidence against former Home Minister. After hearing arguments, court decided to remand Deshmukh to ED's custody for 4 days. court also accepted an application filed by Anil Deshmukh’s counsel to allow presence of a lawyer while interrogation. Ar application for home food and medicines has also been allowed for 72-year-old.

Details of remand application 

In its remand application, ED mentioned that 3 PILs were filed before Bombay HC levelling allegations of corruption primarily against Anil Deshmukh. ncy revealed that in course of investigation, y had found out that re are 13 companies controlled by Deshmukh's family and ar 14 controlled by his associates which have been utilized for purpose of infusion of 'ill-gotten' money of Anil Deshmukh. 

"Assets of se companies were being used by Deshmukhs for ir personal purpose with impunity reby fostering belief that se entities have been created by Deshmukhs for Deshmkukhs," remand plea read. It furr added that one such company controlled by family had raised bogus share capital from 18 Kolkata based shell companies. 

ncy also ted that ex-Maharashtra HM was also 'directly involved' in offence of money laundering. " allegation of collection of Rs 100 crores has been made in this case. Entire money trail requires to be established in order to bring out guilty to book," it said. 

ED arrests Anil Deshmukh

Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh was arrested by ED after being questioned for over 12 hours on Monday in connection with a money laundering case. As per sources, NCP leader was t cooperating and was being evasive in his replies to central ncy. He has been arrested under Section 19 of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, sources told Republic. Earlier on July 26, ED arrested his personal secretary Sanjeev Palande and his personal assistant Kundan Shinde who were remanded to custody.

trouble for Anil Deshmukh started on March 20 when former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh levelled 'extortion' charges against him. In a letter addressed to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, Singh alleged that NCP leader had asked Sachin Vaze to extort Rs.100 crore per month from 1750 bars, restaurants, and or establishments in Mumbai. After Bombay High Court directed CBI to carry out a preliminary enquiry into se allegations, Deshmukh resigned as Home Minister was replaced by Dilip Walse Patil. ED subsequently filed its own case in matter.