New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra on Thursday recused himself from hearing Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez’s plea against a Delhi court order filing charges against her in a case. $200 crore money laundering case.
Initially, a division bench, comprising Justices Mishra and Atul S Chandorkar, informed the actor’s counsel and the Enforcement Directorate that the matter would be transferred to another bench.
“There is some difficulty. In one of the linked cases, my son appeared for the government. He was produced on June 25 before a bench of which neither of us is a member,” Justice Mishra said.
A Delhi court on May 30 ordered charges to be filed against alleged fraud actor Sukesh Chandrashekar and 15 others in a case. $200 crore money laundering case.
The trial court also ordered charges against Chandrashekar and 20 others for various offences, including under stringent MCOCA provisions, in another case registered by the city police special cell.
The actor moved the Supreme Court against the order. Jacqueline, who has been summoned by the ED several times in connection with the investigation, was named as a defendant for the first time in a supplemental indictment filed by the agency.
The ED has alleged in its second supplementary complaint against Jacqueline that she was in constant touch with Chandrashekhar and received valuable gifts from him through his partner Pinky Irani.
According to the prosecution, Chandrashekhar was running an organized crime network from inside the prison and was impersonating senior government officials, including employees of the Prime Minister’s Office, the Home Ministry and the Ministry of Law and Justice.
It was alleged that using spoofed calls, encrypted applications and fabricated identities, the accused convinced the complainant Aditi Singh and her family members to part with huge sums of money.
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