Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 24
The Supreme Court will on Tuesday take up the Enforcement Directorate’s plea against the permission granted to Rajeev Saxena – an approver in an AgustaWestland chopper scam related money laundering case — to travel abroad for medical treatment.
Director of two Dubai-based firms — UHY Saxena and Matrix Holdings — Saxena was one of the accused named in the chargesheet filed by the ED in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland scam. He later turned an approver.
The UAE security agencies had picked him up from his Dubai residence on January 30 and extradited him to India.
The ED has challenged the Delhi High Court’s June 10 order allowing Saxena to travel abroad for treatment of blood cancer and other ailments.
The ED’s petition was mentioned for urgent hearing before a Vacation Bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna which posted it for hearing on Tuesday.
In its June 10 order, the high court had said he had already been granted bail on medical grounds, before being pardoned and made an approver. Noting that he was suffering from various medical ailments, the high court had allowed him to go to Dubai, the UK and certain other European countries for medical treatment for a month between June 25 and July 24. The high court had dismissed the ED’s plea against the trial court’s June 1 order permitting Saxena to travel abroad.
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2YcpRHV
via Today’s News Headlines
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