‘If the decision abroad but in the case of prosecution in India, the length of the case should be heard’. Bharat News
New Delhi: A Delhi court noticed that a case in which the decision was provided by a foreign court, and there was also a deputy judge in India, it should be heard in length. The court of Additional Sessions Judge Sumit Das visited the presentations of Shravan Gupta, an accused in a money laundering case on 5 May. Gupta was convicted for the same crime by a court in Abu Dhabi last year, as was accused by the Enforcement Directorate – fraud, deception and embezzlement. Gupta and six others, including a private company, filed an amendment petition against a magisterial court order of November 2024, in which the court issued summons to him and others for crimes of fraud and cheating. Meanwhile, the court took action in the case till July 4, the date of the next hearing. The court also issued a notice to the ED and the state to file a reply in the case.The case is related to a complaint filed by EMAR India Limited for large -scale fraud against MGF Development Limited, Gupta and 11 others to print Rs 180 crore.In April, Gupta made an application before the court, presenting that on 27 February 2024, a court of Abu Dhabi convicted equal offenses in the current case. The petition said, “The passage of the said decision was hidden by the complainant from the trial court along with this court.” Gupta requested that he could not be prosecuted again, and is entitled to set a separate order. Gupta said that the entire prosecution has spoiled the law in view of Section 300 CRPC along with Article 20 (2) of the Constitution of India.
