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AgustaWestland case: Special CBI Court rejects bail application of Sushen Mohan Gupta
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AgustaWestland case: Special CBI Court rejects bail application of Sushen Mohan Gupta

| @indiablooms | 20 Apr 2019, 01:01 pm

New Delhi, Apr 20 (UNI) A Special Court here on Saturday rejected the bail application of alleged arms dealer and businessman Sushen Mohan Gupta in connection with AgustaWestland Money Laundering case.

Gupta was arrested on March 26 this year and remanded to judicial custody till April 20.

On April 6, Gupta's counsel had moved a bail application and court reserved the order on the plea till today.

Counsel for Gupta submitted before the court that he had joined the investigation as and when summoned and fully cooperated with the probe agencies and had complied with all directions given by them.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted to court that Gupta tried his best, but could not destroy the evidence. Government Counsel accused Gupta of 'influencing' Rajiv Saxena after the latter was allowed to turn approver in the case by the court. "When one of our witnesses wanted to be an approver, Gupta went to Dubai to desist him. He had started calling him when there was a buzz on diaries, the ED said.

Counsel for ED further submitted that two diaries in the form of a pen drive were recovered from the possession of Saxena, which allegedly belonged to Gupta and statement given by Gupta in 2016 that he did not have any knowledge of Interstellar Technologies, a Mauritius based company through which money was laundered, was wrong. ED further alleged that during the investigation, it came to light that Gupta was the one who gave the instructions for the transfer of funds.

CBI Special court after hearing on behalf of Government Counsel and Defence Counsel passed an order to dismissal of bail application of Sushen Mohan Gupta. 
 

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