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Dhall was the executive director of Brindco Sales Private Limited and was arrested on March 1, 2023 by the ED. Subsequently, in April he was arrested by the CBI in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam.
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the Enforcement Directorate’s reply in a bail plea filed by Delhi based businessman Amandeep Singh Dhall challenging the trial court order in a money laundering case related to the Delhi excise policy scam.
The vacation bench of Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju issued notice to the ED and posted the matter for further consideration on June 28.
While issuing notice, the court remarked that the matter requires detailed consideration. It also directed the parties to file their written submissions in the matter.
During the hearing, Senior Advocate Amit Desai along with Advocate Tanveer Ahmed Mir appeared for Dhall and Special Public Prosecutor Zoheb Hossain appeared for the ED.
Mir submitted, “This my lady is a petition for grant of bail. This is on account of S.167(2). Now principally my lady, I want to humbly submit that we are being led by Mr. Amit Desai, Senior Advocate. As per my instructions he will be willing to come to Delhi and argue it on 28th of this month.”
On the contrary, Hossain submitted, “Your ladyship, this is the first listing, I would like to put in a status report. His co-accused in the same case who have raised the issue of default bail, some of them are pending before the roaster judge, because this is an MP/MLA case and some of them are reserved. My humble request is I’ll file the fresh status report, please relist on the July 3, so that there are no conflicting views in the meanwhile”.
Notably, the trial court recently refused to grant bail to Dhall in both CBI and ED cases related to the excise policy scam.
Special Judge MK Nagpal of the Rouse Avenue Court had stated that prima facie evidence lead the court to form an opinion that the allegations made by the prosecution against the applicant were serious in nature and he was not entitled to be released on bail even in the scheduled offence case of CBI.
Dhall was the executive director of Brindco Sales Private Limited and was arrested on March 1, 2023 by the ED. He was, in April also, arrested by the CBI.
According to ED, Dhall allegedly conspired with other persons and was actively involved in the formation of policy and facilitating kickbacks to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its recoupment by the South Group through various means.
Both the ED and CBI have alleged that irregularities were committed while modifying the Excise policy, undue favours were extended to licence holders, the license fee was waived or reduced and the L-1 license was extended without the competent authority’s approval. The beneficiaries diverted “illegal” gains to the accused officials and made false entries in their books of account to evade detection.
Case Title: Amandeep Singh Dhall v. ED
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