This ruling was issued by the Appellate Tribunal for Safema, which handles matters pertaining to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators Act (SAFEMA).
The properties are registered in the names of Patel’s wife Varsha and his business, Millennium Developer, and include residences in the affluent Worli neighborhood in south Mumbai.
Court dismisses ED’s connection request as ‘unlawful’
The council excused the ED’s connection request, announcing it unlawful.
It expressed that Patel’s properties were not engaged with tax evasion and had no association with Iqbal Mirchi, a medication mafia part and Dawood Ibrahim’s right-hand man.
The court explained that a different 14,000-square-foot property having a place with Hajra Memon and her two children was at that point joined, making the twofold connection of Patel’s property superfluous as it was not piece of the returns of wrongdoing.
Resistance reprimands court’s choice, questions ED’s validity
The court’s choice has started analysis from the resistance in Maharashtra, prompting restored charges against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Sanjay Raut, addressing Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena in the Rajya Sabha, scrutinized the believability of both the ED and Focal Agency of Examination (CBI).
He expressed, “It is currently certain that the ED and CBI are the two augmentations of the BJP. The ED’s believability is being referred to now.”
Patel’s dependability to Ajit Pawar and NCP split
Patel, a Rajya Sabha delegate for the NCP is known for his faithfulness to Ajit Pawar.
He upheld Pawar during his resistance to his uncle Sharad Pawar in 2023, that prompted a split in the NCP.
Following this split, Ajit loaned help to the Eknath Shinde-drove government in Maharashtra and accepted the job of one of its vice president priests.
ED’s claims and capture of Patel’s properties
The Requirement Directorate held onto Patel’s properties in 2022, charging they were illicitly obtained from Hajra, the principal spouse of Mirchi.
Mirchi was likewise denounced in the 1993 Mumbai sequential shoots case before his passing in London in 2013.
The properties remember condos for the twelfth and fifteenth floors of Ceejay House in south Mumbai’s upscale Worli region.