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Kripashankar assets case: HC order on October 10
The Bombay High Court on Thursday reserved its order on a PIL seeking an SIT investigation into Mumbai Congress president Kripashankar Singh’s disproportionate assets, even as the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) told the court that it would not file an FIR against Singh and his family following a preliminary inquiry.
After hearing out all the involved parties - the ACB, Enforcement Directorate (ED) and income tax department - a division Bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan Dalvi reserved its order till October 10 on a PIL by social activist Sanjay Tiwari.
Earlier, elaborating on its decision not to file an FIR, Advocate General Ravi Kadam told the court that the ACB filed an FIR only if the assets of the person concerned were more than 10 per cent of his known sources of income. In case of Singh and his wife Malti Devi, the assets were only marginally higher - 11.69 per cent.
Tiwari’s counsel Mahesh Jethmalani dubbed the ACB’s preliminary findings as “perverse”.
After hearing out all the involved parties - the ACB, Enforcement Directorate (ED) and income tax department - a division Bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan Dalvi reserved its order till October 10 on a PIL by social activist Sanjay Tiwari.
Earlier, elaborating on its decision not to file an FIR, Advocate General Ravi Kadam told the court that the ACB filed an FIR only if the assets of the person concerned were more than 10 per cent of his known sources of income. In case of Singh and his wife Malti Devi, the assets were only marginally higher - 11.69 per cent.
Tiwari’s counsel Mahesh Jethmalani dubbed the ACB’s preliminary findings as “perverse”.
