Mumbai, Sep 18 (TVN) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today moved to the court against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh for failing to appear before the probe agency despite being summoned multiple times in connection with a money laundering case.
The ED filed the plea in a special court on Friday seeking action against Deshmukh under IPC section 174 (non-attendance in obedience to an order from public servant).
The section attracts a simple imprisonment which may extend to one month or fine up to five hundred rupees or both.
It is pertinent to mention here that the probe agency had issued five summonses to Deshmukh in the money laundering case .The NCP leader, however, failed to appear before it so far.
The two aides of Deshmukhs Sanjeev Palande and Kundan Shinde have already been arrested in the case and were under judicial custody.
Besides the duo, the probe agency in its charge-sheet also named dismissed Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze as an accused.
The ED launched a probe against Deshmukh and his associates after the CBI filed an FIR against the NCP leader on April 21 after former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh accused him of corruption.
Mr Singh had alleged that Deshmukh had asked Waze to collect Rs 100 crore from city bars and hotels every month, that led the former Home Minister to resign his post in April this year.
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