Bombay High Court grants bail to Chhagan Bhujbal in money laundering case

NewsBharati    04-May-2018
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Mumbai, May 4: Today, the Bombay High Court granted a bail to former Maharashtra Minister and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal in money laundering case. Chhagan Bhujbal and his nephew Sameer Bhujbal were arrested 2 years ago under various charges of corruption and money-laundering amounting to crores of rupees filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), besides seizing their properties in different parts of Maharashtra. 

Chhagan Bhujbal and Sameer Bhujbal had moved the Bombay High Court against a special court's order rejecting their bail pleas in a money laundering case. The court granted a bail on a personal bond of Rs 5 lakh. He has been asked to surrender passport, and not to leave Mumbai without the permission of the court.

In December last year, a Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court had rejected their bail pleas.

Chhagan Bhujbal was arrested in March 2016 after a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which claimed he and his associates misused their position and caused losses to the state exchequer.

The PMLA court had declined them bail after the anti-money laundering agency said the Bhujbals were influential and had a history of having threatened some co-accused in the case.The charges against the accused involve money laundering in the contract for construction of the state’s guest house, Maharashtra Sadan, in Delhi. It also involved the Kalina land-grabbing case in Mumbai.