Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 24: The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will hear on January 25 the plea by journalist Rana Ayyub against an order of a Ghaziabad court which summoned her on January 27 in relation to a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case.
The Petition was submitted on Monday by advocate Vrinda Grover before Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud.
CJI said, “We will keep this day after tomorrow before an appropriate bench. Today will be difficult.”
Earlier, on January 17, a bench led by CJI Chandrachud had agreed to consider listing the plea of Ayyub for an urgent hearing after taking note of the submissions of advocate Vrinda Grover who appeared for her.
When the CJI said that the matter can be posted on Friday (January 27), Grover pointed out that Ayyub has been asked to appear on that day at Ghaziabad court. The matter was agreed to post on Wednesday by CJI.
Ayyub has been summoned in a prosecution complaint filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over alleged FCRA violations in raising public funds for COVID. It was alleged that the funds raised by Ayyub through the online crowd funding platform Ketto violated FCRA.
Last year on November 29, the special PMLA court in Ghaziabad had taken apprehension the prosecution complaint filed by the ED and summoned Ayyub.
The ED chargesheet filed with under section 45 read with section 44 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 for money laundering was filed by Sanjeet Kumar Sahu, Assistant Director of ED, Delhi.
