RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Aug.23: Chartered accountant Suman Kumar Singh, who was arrested and sent to jail in a case of money laundering involving senior IAS officer of the Jharkhand Pooja Singhal and her husband Abhishekh Jha, will have to wait till August 31 to get any order from the court on his bail application.
The situation came after an advocate appearing on behalf of the Enforcement Directorate sought time to file a written argument for the second time from the PMLA court and the court granted the same amid objection raised by Singh’s advocate Shambhu Agrawal assisted by Prachi Agrawal.
However, the court before granting the time made it clear that in case the probe agency fails to file a reply on time it will have to argue on the matter verbally.
The matter arose after ED raided 25 locations of IAS Pooja Singhal on May 5 and recovered Rs 19.31 crore unaccounted money from Singh’s residence and office.
Later, Singhal and Singh were arrested and interrogated in police custody for 14 days to get clues about unaccounted money. In this case, ED filed a charge sheet of 5000 pages before the court.
