Delhi High Court Questions ED on Satyendar Jain’s Money Laundering Case | Delhi News

New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to stay the trial court proceedings pending against former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in a 2017 money laundering case.
However, the single-judge bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri sought a response from Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Jain’s plea seeking to defer the argument on charges in the trial court until the completion of further investigation by the probe agency. The matter has been posted for Dec 10.
Jain approached the court against the trial court’s Sept 4 order refusing to defer the argument on charges. There was no ground to defer the proceedings, the trial court had stated.
Jain submitted before the HC bench that ED’s investigation regarding the recovery of proceeds of crime was still underway and the framing of charges at this stage would be against the principles of a fair trial.
Senior advocate N Hariharan, appearing for Jain, requested the court to defer the argument, saying that even CBI was conducting further investigation into the disproportionate assets case and the outcome in that matter had a direct bearing on the proceeds of crime in the ED case.
The counsel further submitted that the trial court had halted the proceedings in the CBI case to await the outcome of the further investigation and the stage of consideration of charge was yet to arrive in that case.
ED, represented by special counsel Zoheb Hossain, opposed the former minister’s plea for the stay, claiming that the trial court’s order was well-reasoned.