Lalu aide seeks transfer of case to SC; court issues notice to ED | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a plea by Amit Katyal – allegedly an in depth aide of former railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav who has been accused of dishonest buyers in a housing undertaking – in search of transfer of his case to the apex court.The apex court has additionally requested ED why the case in opposition to Katyal, who was final arrested in Nov, shouldn’t be transferred to SC from the particular PMLA court in Gurgaon. The court posted the matter for listening to on Feb 23. The case was listed earlier than a bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi.Katyal was first arrested in 2023 within the railways jobs-for-land ‘rip-off’, wherein Lalu, his spouse Rabri Devi, their three daughters, and son and former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav are the opposite accused, going through bribery and laundering expenses.The company was taken abruptly when Katyal moved SC in search of interim aid, regardless that his case was pending earlier than the particular court, the place different instances in opposition to him are additionally pending for adjudication and framing of expenses.In Nov, Katyal was arrested within the alleged actual property fraud associated to Angle Infrastructure Pvt Ltd of which he’s the promoter-director. ED’s case is predicated on FIRs registered by Gurugram and Delhi Police for alleged non-supply of flats in his Krrish Florence Property undertaking in Gurgaon’s Sector 70.“Investigation revealed that he (Katyal) obtained license from one other developer in a fraudulent method and began gathering funds from potential consumers a lot earlier than grant of license from DTCP Haryana with whole proceeds of crime generated from the exercise exceeding Rs 300 crore,” ED had stated. The undertaking was left incomplete for greater than 10 years with solely three towers constructed however not accomplished, and the identical had resulted into initiation of insolvency proceedings by homebuyers’ affiliation.