File Figure Sanjay Bhandari. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
A highly profiled arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari opposed Ed’s lawsuit in court in Delhi, who declared him a “refugee” in connection with “refugee” and claimed that his stay in the UK was legal because his edition was dismissed by London’s High Court.
London’s order HC in the case of Bhandari was quoted on April 11 by a court in England to postpone the Indian government’s request to issue another accused in an alleged fraud with a multi-corrore.
According to reports, the refugeed Indian Diamantaire Mehul Choksi, recently arrested in Belgium, also quoted the HC order to oppose his issue to India in connection with alleged fraud in the National Bank of £ 13,000.
The name of Bhandari also appeared in the ongoing probe of the Directorate for enforcement in the case of money washing against Robert Vadř, the brother -in -law leader of the congress Rahul Gandhi.
In the UK, the High Court in the UK allowed Bhandari’s appeal against his issue to face alleged tax evasion and money laundering and stated that in prison Tihar would be a “real risk” of blackmail, accompanied by a threat or “real violence” from other prisoners and prison officials.
The High Court in the UK, at the beginning of this month, also rejected the petition filed by the Indian government (GOI) and sought permission to appeal from the British Supreme Court against his order.
“Goi bound by a British court judgment”
Bhandari submitted submission to the court through his lawyer 19th April, quoting a decision before the special judge Sanjeev Aggarwal here, claiming that his “client’s stay in the UK could not be called illegal because he has the legal right to residence in the UK and Goi This is the legal law. “
Attorney Bhandari, head of lawyer Maninder Singh, claimed that Ed’s request was “vague, incorrect and without jurisdiction, because the same does not meet the requirements of the Refugee Offer”.
Singh also claimed that, according to the Refugee Offenders Act, the value must be involved in the planned offenses (black money against Bhandari in the current matter) to be 100 crore or more to declare a person as a “refugee”.
However, when Ed submitted its application aiming to declare Bhandari for a refugee, there was no such assessment of the Ministry of Income Tax and the court was misled for the belief that the value of the crime concerned was more than 100 GBP Crore, he said.
“According to the Ministry of Income Tax itself, according to its submission before the High Court in Delh, in the case of Bhandari, the value of the relevant crime was less than 100 crore for the annulment of the proceedings in March 2020,” the attorney said.
Furthermore, in terms of orders that are unauthorized, based on the fact that he was arrested in the UK, he was released according to the judgment of the United Kingdom and there are no new orders against him, he said.
Delhi’s court was looking for Ed’s refutation to the Bhandari argument until May 3, when the judge continued to hear the matter.
“The arguments that dealt in detail to the Bhandari consultant moved on behalf of ED according to Section 4 (claiming the escaped economic perpetrator) … Act on Refugee Economic Offenders and closed.
“At this stage of SPP (special prosecutor), ED has been looking for some time to solve the arguments of refuted … not to answer. The time that was awarded in the interests of justice. Under these circumstances, the arguments in name Ed were stated in these circumstances.
The United Kingdom High Court allowed Bhandari’s appeal for human rights.
The court also ordered his “release” from the then British Minister of Interior Suella Braverman to face criminal proceedings in India on the basis of a decision on the Westminster court court in November 2022.
Published – April 20, 2025 20:29
