Allahabad High Court orders ED probe into dealings of Amar Singh’s companies
20 May 2011
The Allahabad High Court today directed the Enforcement Directorate to investigate charges of money laundering against Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, ordering that the probe commence within two weeks.
The court's direction came as it dismissed a petition filed by the former Samajwadi Party general secretary who had challenged an FIR lodged in Kanpur nearly two years ago that accused him of various financial irregularities when the party was in power in UP.
A division bench of justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and S S Tiwari asked the ED to commence the investigation "within two weeks.'' The court directed the agency to submit a status report before it within a month of the commencement of the probe.
Singh had challenged an FIR lodged at Babupurwa Police Station in Kanpur on 15 October, 2009 by a local resident Shiv Kant Tripathi under various sections of the IPC, the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Money Laundering Act.
He had also moved the court praying that the issue be probed by the ED.
The court clubbed together the petitions by Singh and Tripathi which were heard by the bench, which had reserved its judgement on 28 March.
