The Bombay high court on October 10 disposed of a plea by actress Shilpa Shetty and her husband, Raj Kundra, after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) stated that it would not act upon its eviction notices until the couple filed an appeal before the appellate authority.
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan also stated that the eviction notices would not be given effect to until the appeal was decided, and for two weeks thereafter if the decision passed was adverse to the petitioners.
The ED had sought possession of Shilpa’s Juhu flat and Kundra’s Lonavala bungalow through eviction notices sent to them. The couple approached the high court, arguing that they had statutory time to challenge the notices and that they could not be acted upon in such haste.
The ED is investigating Raj Kundra in a Rs. 6,600 crore Bitcoin-Ponzi scam case against Pune resident Amit Bhardwaj (now deceased), his brother, Ajay Bhardwaj, and others.