00:00 Hello and welcome you are watching HW News English, I am Sourav George.
00:04 The Enforcement Directorate today challenged the anticipatory bail granted to Robert Wadra.
00:10 The son-in-law of former Congress President Sonia Gandhi in a money laundering case claiming
00:15 non-compliances with bail conditions.
00:18 The ED claims that Wadra did not follow the rules of his bail agreement.
00:23 The ED's lawyer said they will submit an additional affidavit to the court to prove that Wadra
00:29 broke the bail rules.
00:31 They asked for some time to do this.
00:34 Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain agreed and said the ED has two weeks to provide the additional
00:39 affidavit.
00:40 The court will then discuss the matter again in September.
00:45 The ED had already told the High Court that they wanted to question Wadra in custody.
00:50 They believe Wadra is directly connected to the illegal money activities in the case.
00:56 The ED also said Wadra was not helping with the investigation.
01:00 Wadra is accused of moving money illegally to buy a property in London.
01:05 The property is worth 1.9 million pounds, over 17 crores.
01:09 The case is being investigated under the Law of Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
01:15 Wadra's lawyer denied the accusations from the ED.
01:18 The lawyer said Wadra cooperated with the investigation and appeared before the investigators
01:23 whenever they asked.
01:25 The High Court was reviewing the ED's request to cancel the anticipatory bail given to Wadra
01:30 by the trial court on April 1, 2019.
01:34 Wadra disagreed with the ED's request.
01:36 He said there was no proof that he did not cooperate.
01:40 He also said he would not try to hide evidence because the ED already took all the relevant
01:45 documents from him.
01:47 Wadra also said the ED was just looking around for evidence and did not have any real proof
01:52 against him.
01:53 When the trial court gave Wadra anticipatory bail, they told him not to leave the country
01:58 without asking first.
02:00 They also told him to join the investigation when the investigators asked.
02:05 I won't be surprised if Robert Wadra gets jailed.
02:09 Because it looks like there is a pattern here.
02:12 Why I am saying is this because I will explain you by giving one-one examples.
02:18 Starting from Tamil Nadu.
02:19 DMK leader and Tamil Nadu higher education minister K Pondmuri and his son's premises
02:24 were raided by the Enforcement Directorate.
02:27 V Senthil Balaji, Tamil Nadu Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise was arrested
02:34 by the Enforcement Directorate.
02:36 But no central agency action against Chief Minister NK Stalin.
02:41 My second example is Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party's Minister Satyendra Jain.
02:46 He was arrested by the ED.
02:48 ED arrested former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in excise policy case.
02:54 But no central agency action against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
02:59 Third state, Maharashtra.
03:01 Nawab Malik arrested in money laundering case, sent to ED custody, now out on bail.
03:07 Former Home Minister of Maharashtra and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh was arrested and is currently
03:12 out on bail.
03:14 But no major central agency action against Pawar family.
03:19 Again Maharashtra when Shiv Sena was won.
03:21 Not the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray or the Eknath Chandeliya Shiv Sena.
03:25 At that time ED arrested Sanjay Rao in money laundering case.
03:30 But no major central agency action against former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
03:35 Neither did Aditya Thackeray, his son.
03:38 Now coming back to Congress.
03:40 Rahul Gandhi was questioned by ED.
03:43 But Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi was also questioned by ED.
03:46 And now the Enforcement Directorate today challenged the anticipatory bail granted to Robert Vadra.
03:52 I see a patent.
03:54 If you see any patent, do let us know in the comments.
03:58 That's all on the topic.
03:59 Stay tuned with SW News English.
04:00 Thank you for joining us.
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