SC Stays Default Bail Granted to DHFL's Kapil & Dheeraj Wadhawan in Yes Bank Case
Moneylife Digital Team 04 September 2020
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed default bail granted to Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan by Bombay High Court in the Yes Bank fraud case. Kapil Wadhawan, chairman and managing director of Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL), and Dheeraj Wadhawan, are being investigated in several cases of fraud and mismanagement. The Wadhawans, along with their beleaguered DHFL, are also co-accused in a cheating and money laundering case registered against Yes Bank co-founder, Rana Kapoor.   
 
Last month, granting the Wadhawan brothers 'default' bail, Justice Bharati Dangre of the Bombay HC directed them to surrender their passports and deposit Rs1 lakh each as surety. The default bail was granted citing failure of Enforcement Directorate (ED) in filing charge-sheet against the Wadhawan brothers within the mandatory 60-day period after the arrest.
 
While staying the default bail, a bench of justices SK Kaul, Ajay Rastogi and Aniruddha Bose posted the special leave petition (SPL) for hearing on 7 October 2020. 
 
During the hearing, the counsel for ED contended that the agency had sent an email about  the chargesheet on the 58th day from the arrest of the Wadhawan brothers. 
 
The Wadhawans had moved the Bombay HC seeking bail on grounds that the ED failed to file the charge-sheet within the stipulated 60-day period after the ED arrested them on money-laundering charges on 14 May 2020.
 
The Wadhawan brothers hace contended before the HC that the ED had filed its charge-sheet a day after the deadline—on 15th July—against them as well as Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor, his wife Bindu Kapoor and their daughters Roshni and Rekha, besides others.
 
The ED launched its probe in the case after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed its first information report (FIR) in the case on 7 March 2020 before the lock-down, over dubious loans granted by the Yes Bank and alleged quid pro quo between Kapoor and the Wadhawans.
 
In its charge-sheet, the ED has claimed that Dheeraj Wadhawan, the then non-executive director of DHFL, owned 44 companies of the Wadhawan group and also managed the works of the real estate business of the Wadhawan group.
 
The ED investigation into the Yes Bank-Rana Kapoor money-laundering probe had also found that Kapil Wadhawan, started his realty business in 2007-08, pursued it in United Arab Emirates (UAE) by forming Wadhawan International Investments Ltd (WIIL), and the company has some assets in Australia worth Rs1,000 crore.
 
Comments
s5rwav
4 years ago
Madam Nirmala Sitharaman should Retire Enforcement Director in Larger Public Interest of Accountability of the Public Administration in India. I am Babubhai Vaghela from Ahmedabad. Thanks.
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