The ED registered a cash laundering case within the matter in 2024.
In October that yr, a trial courtroom in Delhi summoned the suspended choose in reference to this cash laundering case.
The accused choose has now challenged these proceedings earlier than the Excessive Court docket, alleging that the trial courtroom’s order was handed in violation of Part 223 of Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
This provision states that cognizance of an offence can’t be taken with out giving the accused a possibility of being heard.
“The discovered Trial Court docket has handed within the impugned order dated 22.10.2024 in a slip shod method, with out contemplating the mandate of regulation offered underneath Part 223 of the BNNS,” the petition states.
The choose can be searching for a keep or deferment of the trial within the ED case till her petition is determined by the Excessive Court docket.
“In case the additional proceedings earlier than the discovered Trial Court docket aren’t stayed and the discovered Trial Court docket proceeds additional, the aim of submitting the current petition shall be defeated and the current petition would develop into infructuous,” the petition states.
