The Patiala House court on Saturday directed the framing of charges against Sukesh Chandrasekhar, Leena Maria Paul, Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandes and others in an alleged money laundering case linked with Rs 200 crore alleged extortion from Aditi Singh.
The charges have also been framed against Sukesh Chandrasekhar, Leena Maria Paul and others in the MCOCA case linked with Rs 200 crore of alleged extortion. Jacqueline is not an accused in the extortion case.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Prashant Sharma directed the framing of charges against the accused persons in both cases.
“I conclude that prima facie, there is sufficient material on record based upon which a strong suspicion is raised against all accused persons namely, Sukesh Chandrasekhar, Leena Maria Paul alias Leena Paulose, Deepak Ramnani, Pradeep Ramdanee, B. Mohanraj, Arun Muthu, D. Kamlesh Kothari, Pinky Irani, Jacqueline Fernandez, Pooja Singh, Dharam Singh Meena, Mahender Prasad Sundriyal, Sunder Bora, Komal Poddar (15) Jitender Narula, Avinash Kumar, Jai Prakash Singhal, for which said accused persons have to be charged with offence under section 3 of PMLA, punishable under section 4 of PMLA,” said ASJ Prashant Sharma while framing charges in the money laundering case.
The court has listed the matter for formal signing of charges on June 3.
