TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ A special court in New Delhi has summoned RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband as accused in a money laundering case. The court also summoned Ms Bharti’s firm Mishail Packers and Printers as accused in the case and directed all the accused to appear before it on March 5.
Special Judge NK Malhotra passed the order after taking cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The ED had on December 23 filed its final report against Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar through advocate Nitesh Rana. The agency had earlier attached a Delhi farmhouse of the couple in connection with its money-laundering probe.
The farmhouse, located at 26, Palam Farms in south Delhi’s Bijwasan area, was attached provisionally under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). It belonged to Ms Bharti and Mr Kumar and was “held in the name of M/s Mishail Packers and Printers Private Limited”, the central probe agency had said.
“It was purchased in 2008-09, using Rs. 1.2 crore involved in money laundering,” it had alleged. The agency had raided the farmhouse and a few other locations in July last year as part of its probe against two brothers — Surendra Kumar Jain and Virendra Jain — and others, who were alleged to have laundered several crores of rupees using shell companies.
