Jacqueline Fernandez’s title has been linked to conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar for fairly a very long time now. The Housefull 5 actress has all the time denied her connections with all of the illicit issues involving Sukesh’s title. In the meantime, the actress’ lawyer argued that solely the actress was unaware of Sukesh’s illicit issues, and she or he shouldn’t be prosecuted within the Cash laundering case.
As per information company ANI, Jacqueline Fernandez’s lawyer on Tuesday argued earlier than the Delhi Excessive Court docket stating that an individual who derives financial benefit out of a listed offense may be prosecuted for Cash laundering underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act. Nonetheless, the actress was not a part of any legal exercise for financial benefit; due to this fact, she will be able to’t be indicted for cash laundering.
In response to this, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will make its submissions within the plea moved by Jacqueline in opposition to the cost sheet filed in opposition to her within the cash laundering case. The information company reported that Justice Anish Dayal registered the matter for listening to submissions by the Particular Counsel for ED. The subsequent date for the listening to is scheduled for December 3.
The senior advocate has additional highlighted that the actress didn’t know the items she was getting from Sukesh Chandrashekhar have been out of extorted cash of ₹200 crore from Aditi Singh. The actress’ counsel additionally referred to the judgment within the case of Vijay Madanlal Chaudhary and acknowledged that the hooked up property throughout the investigation needn’t essentially be a part of the proceeds of the crime.
Notably, Senior Advocate Siddharth Agarwal, together with Advocate Prashant Patil and Shakti Pandey, appeared for Jacqueline Fernandez and Advocate Zoheb Hossain appeared for the Enforcement Directorate.
It was additional submitted that two circumstances cannot be impeached on the identical info. An offense of Extortion from Aditi Singh is being prosecuted underneath MCOCA. The petitioner is a witness in that case. She will’t be accused of cash laundering, as she isn’t a part of the crime syndicate and did not derive financial benefit out of that.
Just a few days again, Jacqueline had challenged the cost sheet filed in opposition to her within the ₹200 crores cash laundering case, claiming that she was unaware of the illicit origin of items she acquired.
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