: Money laundering case: NCP leader Eknath Khadse gets protection from arrest for a week #IndiaNEWS The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted interim protection from arrest for one week to Nationalist

Money laundering case: NCP leader Eknath Khadse gets protection from arrest for a week #IndiaNEWS
The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted interim protection from arrest for one week to Nationalist Congress Party leader Eknath Khadse in a money laundering case, reported PTI. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in the purchase of a land plot in Pune in 2016.A single bench of Justice NW Sambre also directed Khadse to approach a special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act for bail.Khadse has been accused of misusing his official powers to facilitate the purchase of government land of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation by his family in Pune’s Bhosari area in 2016. He was then the revenue minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party government. He had denied any wrongdoing, saying that the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Income Tax department had given him a clean chit in the matter. However, following the allegations, Khadse had resigned as the revenue minister from the Devendra Fadnavis-led government in June 2016. In 2020, he joined the Nationalist Congress Party.On Thursday, the High Court was hearing Khadse’s plea for pre-arrest bail in the case. During the hearing, advocate Shirish Gupte, appearing for Khadese, argued that the Enforcement Directorate has already filed a chargesheet in the case and he had never been arrested during the investigation. Earlier this month,...Read more

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