Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, Aug 8: Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut has been send to judicial custody till August 22 in connection with a money laundering case. The Enforcement Directorate detained the 60-year-old Sena leader a week ago in connection with the Patra Chawl land scam case. He had allegedly disregarded summonses to submit to a central investigation twice before that.
Just a few weeks had passed since the state’s Uddhav Thackeray government had fallen because of Eknath Shinde’s uprising, thus the Shiv Sena was taken by surprise by his arrest.
At the time of Raut’s arrest, Team Uddhav and Team Shinde were engaged in a standoff over the party emblem.
A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court had already ordered Raut to remain in ED’s custody until August 8 before the investigation agency detained him on July 31. His imprisonment was increased on Monday when he was once again produced before the special court.
