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Relief for Lalu's daughter Misa Bharti and her husband as court grants bail in money laundering case

In a major relief, a special CBI court in Delhi on Monday granted a bail to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter and her husband in connection with a money laundering case.

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In a major relief, a special CBI court in Delhi on Monday granted a bail to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter and her husband in connection with a money laundering case.

The RJD MP Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar have been granted bail on the condition that both cannot leave the country without the Court's permission, after they appeared before the court.

The ED had, on December 23, filed its final report against Misa and her husband through advocate Nitesh Rana.

Shrugging off her responsibility,Misa Bharti has put the onus of running a company being probed for money laundering on her husband and a dead CA, even though the ED has said that the duo "actively conspired" to launder Rs 1.2 crore using shell firms.

The agency, in its chargesheet, had said they were "party and actively connected with proceeds of crime including its concealment, possession, acquisition or use and projecting or claiming it as untainted property, and thus are guilty of offence of money laundering."

 

The case is related to the purchase of a farm house in Delhi by Misa Bharti and her husband in the name of their company - Ms Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd - "using Rs 1.2 crore involved in money laundering in the year 2008-09."

Hence, she said, her husband and the deceased CA "would be in a better position" to answer questions about the company and the farmhouse purchased by it.

Shailesh Kumar, in his statement to the ED, said he, as one of the directors of the firm, "supervised the day-to-day functioning of the company, guiding his manager and other employees." He, however, told the ED that the "financial matters" of the company were handled by the CA and his company was "investing in purchasing agricultural land in anticipation of the proposed new master plan of Delhi."

The ED, in the chargesheet, said Misa and Kumar have "actively connived and conspired with Rajesh Kumar Agarwal (another accused in the case) and late Sandeep Sharma for the money laundering of Rs 1.20 crore through the shell companies controlled by Jain brothers and Santosh Kumar Shah (alleged hawala and shell company operatives) by providing funds in advance to them for making investment in their company and thus knowingly were party and actively connected with proceeds of crime including concealment, possession, acquisition or use and projecting or claiming it as untainted property."

 

The agency had also arrested Rajesh Agarwal, an accountant who mediated and provided a cash amount of "Rs 90 lakh to the Jain brothers in advance so as to invest in Ms Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd as share premium".

The agency said the Jain brothers, Agrawal and the daughter and the son-in-law of Lalu Yadav were the "key persons behind the money laundering of Rs 1.20 crore".

The ED had conducted raids at the farmhouse and few other places linked to Misa Bharti, her husband and others in July last year. 

(With PTI inputs)

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