The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, gave relief to actor Jacqueline Fernandez accused in a money laundering case and have been facing prosecution under the Money laundering under Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Senior Advocate Siddharth Agarwal, along with Advocate Prashant Patil and Shakti Pandey, appeared for Jacqueline Fernandez.
The Court said that since Fernandez did not receive any economic advantage out of scheduled offence, hence she cannot be prosecuted for Money laundering under Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The Court further said that she was not part of any criminal activity for economic advantage.
Now, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will make its submissions in the plea moved by Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez against the charge sheet filed against her in money laundering. Advocate Zoheb Hossain appeared for the Enforcement Directorate.
Justice Anish Dayal listed the matter for hearing submissions by the Special Counsel for ED. Next date for hearing is December 3.
It was further submitted that she had no knowledge that the gifts she was getting from Sukesh Chandrashekhar were out of proceeds of a crime of ₹200 crore. As the offence of extortion came to light once the FIR was registered by Aditi Singh.
The actor had fallen in love with Sukesh Chandrashekhar, even informed some of her friends that she had discovered her “dream man” and that he would soon be in front of everyone. Sukesh Chandrashekhar was detained by Delhi Police in the Rs 200 crore extortion case now being investigated by the ED, in which Jacqueline Fernandez also has been named as an accused as she had received gifts worth crores from the conman. Her co-actors and collogues, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar had warned against being with Sukesh. The things changed until her hairdresser gave the celebrity a news article outlining the conman’s criminal past. Jacqueline read the news story and was indignant.
