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Dismissing an appeal of the Enforcement Directorate, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the 60/90-day duration for the grant of default bail in a criminal case will include the remand period. A bench of Justices KM Joseph, Hrishikesh Roy and BV Nagarathna dismissed the appeal filed by the ED challenging the Bombay High Court order granting bail to former DHFL promoters Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan in a Yes Bank money laundering case being probed by the agency. "The remand period will be calculated from the date, magistrate remand the accused. An accused becomes entitled to default bail if the charge sheet is not filed by 61st or 91st day of the remand period", the bench said. The three-judge bench answered the larger issue referred to it by a two-judge bench in 2021. It directed the pending petitions pertaining to the case be placed before a two-judge bench. The top court had on February 9, reserved its verdict on the appeal of ED. On February 23, 2021, the top court ha

Sebi on Friday revoked the securities market ban imposed on eight former promoter entities of Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL) in a case pertaining to alleged fraudulent financial transactions. Also, the regulator said the investigation in the matter had been completed and thereafter it initiated quasi-judicial proceedings against Kapil Wadhawan, Dheeraj Wadhawan, Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan and Sarang Wadhawan who were the other four former promoters of DHFL (now known as Piramal Finance). The eight former promoter entities are -- Aruna Wadhawan, Malti Wadhawan, Anu Wadhawan, Pooja Wadhawan, Wadhawan Holdings Pvt Ltd, Wadhawan Consolidated Holdings Pvt Ltd, Wadhawan Retail Venture Pvt Ltd and Wadhawan Global Capital Ltd (formerly known as Wadhawan Housing Pvt Ltd). The entities are collectively referred to as noticees. In its fresh order, Sebi's Whole Time Member Ashwani Bhatia said, "I note that the investigation in the matter has now been completed, and quasi-judicial proceedings are

After dilly-dallying for over two years, the IDBI Bank Ltd. has finally declared the DHFL promoters and siblings -- Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan -- as 'wilful defaulters'

The PCHF contended that it cannot be saddled with the offences allegedly committed by the previous management prior to the initiation of the insolvency proceedings

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The Delhi High Court Thursday sought to know the Centre's stand on a plea seeking a probe by NIA against several persons, including former DHFL promoters Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan facing prosecution in a multi-crore bank loan scam case, for allegedly indulging in terror funding. The petition claimed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has apparently "unearthed multiple links indicating that the accused persons have funded the Iqbal Mirchi-Dawood Ibrahim terrorist gang, while (allegedly) criminally misappropriating the public money through banks". "You seek instructions on this," a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad told central government standing counsel Anurag Ahluwalia. The court granted four weeks time to the Centre's counsel to get instructions in the matter and listed it for further hearing on February 22. Petitioner Santosh Kumar Singh, an ex-army personnel, sought direction to the Centre and the NIA to order investigation by the agency

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday agreed to hear in detail the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea challenging the trial court order granting statutory bail to Dheeraj and Kapil Wadhawan

The CBI in its charge sheet lodged in the Rs 34,615 crore DHFL loan fraud case has said that the accused created 87 shell companies and 2,60,000 fake borrowers to launder money

The CBI has filed a charge sheet against former Dewan Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL) CMD Kapil Wadhawan and 74 others in connection with a Rs 34,000-crore bank fraud case, officials said on Saturday. In its charge sheet, filed before a Special CBI court here, the agency has also named then director Dheeraj Wadhawan and former CEO Harshil Mehta as accused in the mega-scam case, officials said. The agency had registered the case in June in DHFL bank fraud matter for allegedly defrauding a consortium of 17 banks to the tune of Rs 34,000 crore, making it the biggest banking loan fraud of the country, they said. In the charge sheet, the agency has listed 18 individuals and 57 companies through which funds were diverted, they alleged.

A Delhi court has dismissed the statutory bail plea of former Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) promoters, Kapil Wadhawan and his brother Dheeraj, arrested by the CBI in connection with a multi-crore bank loan scam case. The accused had claimed before the court that since the CBI failed to file the charge sheet against them within the mandatory 60-day period from their arrest, they had indefeasible right to statutory bail, also known as default bail, in the matter. The two accused were arrested in the present FIR on July 19. Special Judge Vishal Gogne, however, said the filing of the present charge sheet in the investigation shall rather be governed by Section 167(2)(a)(i) CrPC, which provides for a maximum period of 90 days. The judge noted that the accused were also charged with section 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent) for which the maximum punishment was life imprisonment, which brings the period of completion of ..

A Delhi court has denied bail to businessman Ajay Ramesh Nawandar in a Rs 34,615-crore bank fraud case involving Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL), on account of his possible influence on both evidence and witnesses. The court held that the accused was prima facie complicit at some stage in the diversion of the humongous funds originating from the loans. In the present facts, the Court is inclined to decline the bail not because the offences are economic in nature but on account of the investigation into the present offences being intricate, the accused prima facie being complicit at some stage of the handling/diversion of the humongous funds originating from the loans, a strong likelihood of him tampering with evidence and the foreseeable possibility of him influencing witnesses if admitted to bail, Special Judge Vishal Gogne said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had earlier conducted searches at Nawandar's premises and recovered a large collection of uber-luxury watch

In a latest development in connection with the DHFL loan fraud case of Rs 34,615 crore, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday said it has seized a helicopter parked at a hangar

Pune-based builder Avinash Bhosale spent Rs 300 crore of the over Rs 550 crore received from DHFL to buy a property in London, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has said in a charge-sheet

The CBI has recovered paintings of Indian maestros FN Souza and SH Raza worth Rs 5.50 crore during a fresh round of searches related to India's biggest bank fraud involving DHFL, officials said. SH Raza's 1956 oil-on-canvas painting titled 'Village' worth over Rs 3.50 crore and FN Souza's 1964-untitled oil-on-linen piece valued at Rs 2 crore were among the luxurious items worth Rs 12 crore seized by the agency, they said. The central agency has also seized two uber-luxury watches of Jacob and Co and Frank Muller Geneve totalling about Rs 5 crore during searches, it said in a statement. The CBI is conducting custodial interrogation of former CMD of DHFL Kapil Wadhawan and Director Dheeraj Wadhawan for the last nine days during which it emerged that they had purchased these paintings from a noted art auction house at Fort in Mumbai, the officials said. After coming to know where these items were kept, the CBI conducted searches and seized the assets, they said. According to official

The agency has also named Satyen Tandon as an accused in the charge sheet filed before a special CBI court in Mumbai, officials said.

A Delhi Court sent the Wadhawan brothers to eight-day CBI remand in Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL) alleged loan fraud case

CBI) conducted searches at Nawandar's premises last week and recovered a large number of uber-luxury watches worth crores of rupees, including Rolex Oyster Perpetual, Cartier, Omega, officials said.

The central probe agency has found material showing that public funds were diverted to people allegedly linked to Shakeel, they said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday conducted searches in connection with the Rs 36,615 crore loan fraud case involving DHFL and its top officials

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday took Pune-based businessman Avinash Bhosale into custody from Arthur Road Jail in an alleged corruption case pertaining to Yes Bank and DHFL