Supreme Court judge Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra on Thursday recused himself from hearing the petition of Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez, in which she had appealed against the Delhi Court order framing charges against her in a money laundering case of Rs 200 crore.
Initially, a Partial Working Day (PWD) bench of Justices Mishra and Atul S Chandurkar heard the actress’s lawyer and Enforcement Directorate Told that the matter would be sent to another bench.
Justice Mishra said, there is something difficult. In one of the cases related to this, my son had appeared for the government. (This case) will be presented on June 25 before a bench in which none of us are members. On May 30, a Delhi court had ordered framing of charges against the actor, alleged swindler Sukesh Chandrashekhar and 15 others in a Rs 200 crore money laundering case.
Jacqueline knocked on the door of the Supreme Court
The trial court had also directed that charges be framed against Chandrashekhar and 20 others for various offenses under stringent MCOCA provisions in another case registered by the special cell of the city police.
The actress approached the Supreme Court against the order. Jacqueline, who was summoned by the ED several times in connection with the investigation, was made an accused for the first time in the supplementary chargesheet filed by the agency.
ED had made these allegations against Jacqueline
The ED, in its second supplementary complaint against Jacqueline, alleged that she was in constant touch with Chandrashekhar and had received expensive gifts from him through his associate Pinky Irani. According to the prosecution, Chandrashekhar was running an organized criminal network from inside the jail and was impersonating senior government officials, including the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Law and Justice.
It claimed that by using spoofed calls, encrypted applications and fake identities, the accused induced complainant Aditi Singh and her family members to pay huge amounts of money.
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