Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh was arrested in a money-laundering case early on Tuesday, after extensive questioning, and produced before a holiday special court, which sent him to custody of the Enforcement Directorate till November 6.
Special Judge P.B. Jadhav rejected the plea by ED’s counsel, Additional Solicitor-General Anil Singh seeking 14 days’ custody, which defence lawyers, senior advocate Vikram Chaudhri and advocate Aniket Nikam strongly protested.
Chaudhri said that before the Supreme Court and Bombay High Court, the ED had said that Deshmukh was only a suspect and not an accused in the case and said termed the arrest as “illegal”.
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That was the reason Deshmukh voluntarily went to the ED office on November 1 and after 13 hours of questioning he was placed under arrested, he said.
The defence sought to know what fresh evidence the ED had gathered in the past four days since Friday, leading to the arrest especially since he had always cooperated with the agency, whenever summoned.
Following an application by Deshmukh, Special Judge Jadhav allowed him home food and medicines, and presence of a lawyer during the ED interrogation, given his advanced age of 72 and several health issues like a dislocated arm and heart problems, besides being a Covid-recovered patient, said Nikam. The Bombay High Court on Friday declined Deshmukh’s plea to quash the ED summons against him, and he said that his matter was still pending before the Supreme Court.
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The ED filed its case based on the CBI’s FIR against Deshmukh after the former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh had alleged that the minister had tasked cop Sachin Vaze and others to collect Rs 100 crore from Mumbai hoteliers every month.
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