The Supreme Court today (September 22) refused to interfere with a Delhi high court order dismissing actress Jacqueline Fernandez’s plea to quash the ECIR (equivalent to FIR) against her in a Rs. 200-crore money-laundering case involving alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar. “We will not interfere at this stage,” a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih told senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi who represented Fernandez.
Jacqueline Fernandez had challenged the high court’s July 3 order which dismissed her petition seeking quashing of the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) in the money-laundering case. She is an accused in the case lodged against Sukesh Chandrasekhar and had appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in the investigation.
The Delhi police had booked Chandrasekhar for allegedly duping the spouses of former promoters of Ranbaxy, Shivinder Singh and Malvinder Singh, of Rs. 200 crore.