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The court dealt with the allegations of willful disobedience by Arvind Kejriwal and said, "The next challenge was to prove the accused's intentional disobedience, which the complainant has not proved beyond a reasonable doubt."
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The 260-page chargesheet names 61-year-old Al Falah Group chairman Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui and the Al Falah Charitable Trust -- that oversees all educational arms of the university -- as accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
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Terming it a rare case warranting constitutional intervention, the ED alleged a pattern of obstruction and intimidation during its I-PAC money laundering probe.
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Anticipating the ED’s approach to the Supreme Court, the West Bengal government had earlier filed a caveat.
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A caveat, filed before constitutional courts, is meant to ensure that no adverse direction is issued in the absence of the concerned party.
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According to the petition, the agency invoked the court’s writ jurisdiction to “instil public confidence” and to immediately stop what it termed as “over-action” by the state police and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
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In its petition, the TMC sought directions restraining the “misuse and dissemination” of materials seized during the January 8 searches, carried out under Section 17 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002
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The ED alleged that one hawala operator, linked to layering of the proceeds of crime from coal smuggling, facilitated transactions involving “tens of crores of rupees” to I-PAC.
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The ED raids on I-PAC premises and Mamata Banerjee's dramatic intervention have thrown the spotlight on how a political consultancy has quietly become central to the Trinamool Congress' electoral machine.
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The ED conducted searches at the office of I-PAC and the home of its director Pratik Jain, in Kolkata as part of a money laundering probe into an alleged multi-crore rupee coal pilferage scam, official sources told PTI.
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The agency maintained that the focus of the searches is on suspected cash generation networks, hawala transfers, and financial trails linked to the coal smuggling case.
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As per the probe agency, Kundra received 285 Bitcoins from the "mastermind" and promoter of Gain Bitcoin Ponzi "scam" Amit Bhardwaj for setting up a Bitcoin mining farm in Ukraine.
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Other raids had resulted in the seizure of four high-end vehicles -- a Lamborghini Urus, Mercedes, Ford Endeavour and Thar -- along with approximately Rs 20 lakh in cash, documents and digital devices.
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In November, the agency had arrested the founders of WinZO -- Saumya Singh Rathore and Paavan Nanda following their questioning at the Bengaluru zonal office of the ED.
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In July 2025, ED had frozen assets worth Rs 284.5 crore linked to Probo and its promoters under PMLA.
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Shivakumar said that the only objective was to "torture" supporters of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.
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ED arrested co-founders Saumya Singh Rathore and Paavan Nanda on money laundering charges in November 2025. It also froze company assets worth of around Rs 505 crore.
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The notice, which does not require a personal appearance, was issued about 10-12 days ago by the federal probe agency under the provisions of FEMA
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The ED found that land was transferred to the Tarbia Education Foundation, a trust linked to chancellor Siddiqui, on the basis of a forged General Power of Attorney.
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The ED stated it initiated the investigation based on FIRs filed against the firms on the grounds of cheating, blocking of accounts, impersonation, and misuse of PAN
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It conducted searches in Delhi and Gurugram against a company named Universal Build Well Pvt. Ltd. and its promoters for non-completion of real estate projects and for "cheating" homebuyers and investors.
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The agency clarified that arrests are only made after following the due procedure and are done physically in person
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According to ED, the accused issued bogus GST invoices, fraudulently generating and passing on fake Input Tax Credit valued at over Rs 734 crore.The fraud spans three states and involves 135 shell companies
