The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a response from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a bail plea by former Noida Authority chief engineer Yadav Singh, who is chargesheeted in a money-laundering case.
A Bench led by Justice S.A. Bobde issued a notice to the ED and asked it to file its response within two weeks.
HC refuses bail
Mr. Singh approached the apex court after the Allahabad High Court denied him bail. In his plea before the Allahabad HC, he had contended that he was entitled to bail since the chargesheet was not submitted by the probe agency within the statutory period.
However, the HC dismissed his petition after the ED submitted that the chargesheet was filed on time.
FIR by CBI
In 2015, the ED had slapped money-laundering charges against Singh, who was engineer-in-chief of the Noida Authority, Greater Noida Authority and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority, on the basis of an FIR lodged by the CBI.
Earlier, an income tax raid in November 2014 had revealed that Singh’s assets were hugely disproportionate to his income, following which he was suspended by the then Uttar Pradesh government. In July 2015, the Allahabad High Court directed the CBI to probe the case.