A Delhi court on Monday extended by a week the custodial interrogation of former Fortis Healthcare promoter Malvinder Singh and former CMD of Religare Enterprises Ltd (REL) Sunil Godhwani by the ED in a money laundering case related to alleged misappropriation of funds of Religare Finvest Ltd (RFL).
Special Judge Sandeep Yadav extended the ED custody of both the accused till November 23 on a plea moved by the probe agency’s special public prosecutor Nitesh Rana.
In its application, the Enforcement Directorate sought 11 more days to interrogate Singh and Godhwani.
“After considering rival submissions and having gone through the application, the court is of opinion that further custodial interrogation of accused is required for effective and meaningful investigation.”Accordingly, accused are remanded to custody of ED till November 23,” the judge said.
While seeking the custody, the ED told the court that the accused have to be confronted with the persons who have made material disclosures during investigation. “Accused are required to be confronted with digital evidence recovered during investigation which are voluminous in nature.
“Summons to other related persons have been issued who have been required to attend proceedings in next days and accused would be needed to confront with those summoned persons. Accused have given evasive replies to various queries put to him,” Rana told the court.