New Delhi: Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), has moved the Delhi High Court for bail in a money laundering case related to alleged illegal phone tapping and espionage of National Stock Exchange (NSE) employees. Is. Besides this, he has also filed a separate petition seeking quashing of the FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for alleged offenses of cheating, criminal breach of trust and cheating under the Indian Penal Code by a public servant. provision of information technology Act, Indian Telegraph Act and Prevention of Corruption Act.
Both the petitions have been listed for hearing on August 16 before Justice Jasmeet Singh. Pandey had challenged the August 4 order of the trial court in the money laundering case, in which his bail plea was rejected.
The trial court had observed that the material available shows that he was actively involved in the execution of recording and monitoring of calls at NSE and was directly communicating with the employees of the exchange as well as with Isec Services Pvt Ltd, whose The company was founded by him. And who was responsible for the cyber security audit of NSE. The trial court had noted that the material collected by the investigating officer showed that the retired IPS officer was in de facto control of the affairs of the ISEC even after 2006, when he resigned as a director, and that the NSE officers Participated in meetings together.
It had said that since the applicant was the head of Mumbai Police till June 30, 2022, the apprehension of the investigating agency that he may influence witnesses or tamper with evidence was not unfounded. In his petition seeking quashing of the FIR in the CBI case, Pandey argued that the FIR has been registered against him only to fulfill political vendetta.
The petition states that the FIR is completely baseless and no offense is made out. According to CBI, ISEC in conspiracy with other accused persons illegally intercepted MTNL lines in NSE between 2009 and 2017 and recorded calls by various officials of NSE. It was alleged that telephone surveillance was carried out by ISEC without the permission of the competent authority as required under the provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act and without the knowledge or consent of the NSE employees.
Pandey, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on July 19, is currently in judicial custody. On July 14, the ED had arrested Chitra Ramakrishna, former MD and CEO of NSE, in connection with the phone tapping case.
Ramakrishna was already in jail at that time in a CBI case related to the co-location scam at NSE, which involved alleged manipulation of exchanges.
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