Enforcement Directorate Rejects Anil Deshmukh’s request on questioning through video conferencing

On Tuesday, the Enforcement Directorate dismissed Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s request that he be questioned through video-conferencing and details of the case be made obtainable to him. The Former Maharashtra Home Minister has written a letter to the Enforcement Directorate and said that he cannot appear before ED even today. Anil Deshmukh’s lawyer has said that if ED officials’ hand over the documents they have asked for, Anil Deshmukh will appear before the agencies.

 

ED in response, said as per law, it is the discretion of IO to decide the mode of questioning and a suspect cannot dictate terms. The Enforcement Directorate claims that they have established that how the money over 4.7 crores were taken from the bar owners and how it was diverted to Deshmukh’s Nagpur-based educational trust by his son.

 

In the meantime, a special court in Mumbai on Tuesday permitted the CBI to record the assertion of four “pivotal witnesses” before the magistrate in its probe into the FIR against Ex-Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. The court declared the magistrate is requested to record the statement of witnesses and those statements will also be given to CBI in a sealed envelope on or before July 5.

Avoiding the Enforcement Directorate, is not a solution for Deshmukh, because now, or later he has to present before the ED officials. The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi Government is trying a political vendetta in this whole case while the BJP leaders are clearly saying that Deshmukh's arrest is inevitable. In the whole case, the statement of Sachin Vaze and two more cops are very important who have stated to the ED officials how this whole money laundering has happened.