Last Updated: December 26, 2022, 20:33 IST
The prime court docket requested the anti-money laundering probe company to confirm the situation of her daughter and inform the bench (File Image)
Pooja Singhal has been in custody since May 11 after raids have been carried out at properties linked to her
The Supreme Court has sought the the response of the Enforcement Directorate to a plea filed by suspended IAS officer Pooja Singhal in a cash laundering case in search of interim bail to take care of her daughter who’s unwell.
A bench of Justices S Okay Kaul and Abhay S Oka issued discover to the ED and others and sought their replies.
“Issue notice returnable in the re-opening miscellaneous week of January, 2023 both in the SLP as well as on the application for interim bail.
“In the meantime, the respondent is directed to verify the medical status of the daughter of the petitioner,” the bench stated.
During the listening to, the counsel showing on behalf of Singhal submitted his shopper’s daughter must be taken care of as a consequence of a medical situation and sought bail on that floor.
The prime court docket requested the anti-money laundering probe company to confirm the situation of her daughter and inform the bench.
The prime court docket was listening to an enchantment filed by Singhal, a Jharkhand cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, towards the Jharakhand excessive court docket order dismissing her bail plea.
Singhal has been in custody since May 11 after raids have been carried out at properties linked to her.
The Enforcement Directorate has accused Singhal, a former state mines division secretary, of cash laundering.
The ED has stated greater than Rs 36 crore money, linked to alleged unlawful mining, was seized by its groups as a part of two separate cash laundering investigations.
Apart from the 2000-batch IAS officer, her businessman husband, a chartered accountant related to the couple and others have been additionally raided by the ED as a part of a cash laundering probe linked to a case of alleged corruption within the MGNREGA scheme.
Singhal was suspended by the state authorities following her arrest.
Suman Kumar, a chartered accountant linked to Singhal and her husband, was additionally arrested by the company and money totalling Rs 19.76 crore was seized from him.
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