Jacqueline Fernandez is an accused in the extortion case of Rs 200 crore
New Delhi:
The Enforcement Directorate today told a Delhi court that actress Jacqueline Fernandez tried to leave India in a Rs 200-crore extortion case involving jailed criminal Sukesh Chandrasekhar.
The court was hearing the actor’s regular bail plea. His lawyers said that he had not received any document from the Enforcement Directorate or the ED, following which the court asked the ED to do so. The next hearing of the case will be on November 10.
In his reply to the court today opposing the Bollywood actor regular bail applicationThe ED alleged that Ms Fernandez tampered with evidence during the investigation by deleting data from her mobile phone.
The ED alleged that Ms Fernandez was not cooperating with the investigators. The ED said in the court document that she wanted to leave India, but could not do so as her name was in the “lookout circular” or list of people preventing her from fleeing the country.
When Ms Fernandez refused to cooperate, when asked to sit face to face with the other accused in the case and produce evidence, the ED said, she said she did not show the behavior to be helpful in the investigation.
Sukesh Chandrashekhar, lodged in a Delhi jail, has allegedly duped several people, including Aditi Singh, wife of Shivinder Mohan Singh, former promoter of Fortis Healthcare.
The ED says that Fernandez and another actress Nora Fatehi received luxury cars and other expensive gifts from the alleged thugs.
Investigators have also said that Ms. Fernandez was aware of Sukesh Chandrasekhar’s involvement in criminal cases and was married, but chose to ignore them and carried out financial transactions with him.