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2021 (8) TMI 1381

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..... edings where their presence is required. Copies of the interim and final reports of M/s Grant Thornton, forensic auditors appointed by this Court shall be furnished to the Directorate of Enforcement. Copies of the reports shall be handed over in a sealed cover to Ms Shraddha Deshmukh, counsel assisting Ms Madhavi Divan for onward transmission to the Directorate of Enforcement - List the Special Leave Petition after six weeks, and a status report shall be filed by ED on the investigation. - Civil Appeal No(s).10856/2016 With SLP (Crl) No. 5978-5979/2017, SLP (C) No. 9572/2007 And. Ors. - - - Dated:- 26-8-2021 - C.A. No. 11108/2016 With S.L.P.(C)...CC No. 5129-5130/2017, C.A. No. 5674/2017, C.A. No. 9391-9404/2017 , C.A. No. 10609/2018 With Diary No(s). 40477/2018, W.P.(C) No. 51/2019 With Diary No(s). 4454/2019, C.A. No. 3236/2019, C.A. No. 3269/2019, C.A. No. 3935/2019 With Diary No(s). 13860/2019, Diary No(s). 13969/2019, C.A. No. 5177/2019, C.A. No. 5912/2019, C.A. No. 2496-2497/2020, CONMT.PET.(C) No. 379/2020 in SLP(Crl) No. 5978-5979/2017, CONMT.PET.(C) No. 442/2020 in SLP(Crl) No. 5978-5979/2017, CONMT.PET.(C) No. 663/2020 in SLP(Crl) No. 5978-5979/2017, C.A. No. 10 .....

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..... , Sr. Adv., Ms. Kirti Dua, Adv., Ms. Priyanjali Singh, AOR, Petitioner-in-person,. For the Respondent : Mr. N. Venkataraman, ASG, Ms. Anubha Agrawal, AOR, Ms. Madhavi Divan, ASG, Mr. K.M. Nataraj, ASG, Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv., Chinmayee Chandra, Adv., Mr. M.K. Maroria, Adv., Mr. B.V. Balaramdas AOR, Mr. A. K. Sharma AOR, Mr. Shekhar Vyas, Adv., Ms. Praveena Gautam, Adv., Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR, Ms. Suhashini Sen, Adv., Mr. T.A. Khan, Adv., Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, Adv., Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR, Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Adv., Mr. Ayush Puri, Adv., Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv., Mr. Prashant Singh B, Adv., Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR, Mr. Sughosh Subramanium, Adv., Mr S.C. Dharmadhikari, Sr. Adv., Mr Aniruddha Joshi, Adv., Ms Jasmine Damkewala, AOR, Ms Vaishali Sharma, Adv., Mr. Dinesh Chander Trehan, Adv., Ms Maninder Acharya, Sr Adv., Ms Adity Gupta, Adv., Ms Jasmine Damkewala, AOR, Ms Vaishali Sharma, Adv., Mr. Dinesh Chander Trehan, Adv., Mr. Parag Tripathi, Sr. Adv., Mr. Kartik Yadav, Adv., Mr. Parinay Vasandani, Adv., Mr. Manhar Singh Saini, Adv., Ms. Mishika Bajpai, Adv., Mr. Chandra Prakash, Adv., M/s DSK Legal, Mr. Huzefa Ahmadi, Sr. Adv., Mr. Rajesh D.M., Adv., Mr. Aman Gandhi, A .....

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..... Mr. Satyam Reddy, Sr. Adv., Mr. A. Radhakrishnan, AOR, Ms. Ruma Sarasani , Adv., Ms. Ritu Bhardwaj, Adv., Ms. Astha Deep, Adv., Mr. Atul Kumar, AOR, Mr. Nikunj Dayal, AOR, Mr. Nikhil Swami, AOR, Ms. Divya Swami, Adv., Mr. Vivek Gupta, AOR, Mr. Arjun Singh Bhati, AOR, Mr. B. Ramana Murthy, AOR, M/S. Kmnp Law Aor, AOR, Mr. Omprakash Ajitsingh Parihar, AOR, Mr. Abhijeet Shah, Adv., Apurv S, Adv., Mr.Dushyant Tiwari, Adv., Mr. Yudhvir Dalal, Adv., Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, AOR, Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, AOR, Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR, Mr. Sureshan P., AOR, Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, AOR, Mr. Himanshu S Sinha, Adv., Mr. Bhuwan Dhoopar, Adv., Mrs. B. Sunita Rao, AOR, Mr. Vikrant Pachnanda, AOR, Mr. Mukul Katyal, Adv., Mr. Sukant Vikram, AOR, Mr. Abhay Kumar, AOR, Mr. Vijay Kumar, Adv., Mr. Kumar Milind, Adv., Mr. Shagun Ruhil, Adv., Mr. M. P. Devanath, AOR, Ms. Madhurima Tatia, AOR, Mr. Vivek Narayan Sharma, AOR, Mr. S.Y. Usmani, Adv., Mr. M.S. Yadav, Adv., Mr. Rishi Kumar, Adv., Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR, Dr. Harish Uppal, Adv., Mr. Naresh Aditya Madhav, Adv., Mr Vikas Mehta AOR, Mr. Kushal Sarkar, Adv., Mr. Vijay Kumar, AOR, Mr. Ashwani Garg, Adv., Mr. Abdulla Naseeh V.T., Adv., Mr. C. K. .....

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..... ath, Adv., Mr. Tarun Mehta, Adv., Mr. Manikya Khanna, Adv., Ms. Nidhi Mohan Parashar, AOR, Mr. Pratyaksh Sharma, Adv., Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Bajaj, Adv., Ms. Aakanksha Nehra, Adv., Mr. Siddhartha Shukla, Adv., Mr. Chandan Kumar, AOR, Mr. R. K. Pandey, Adv., Mr. Atul Sharma, AOR, Mr. Arvind Gupta, AOR, Mr. Rabindra Tiwary, Adv., Mr. Kumar Law, Adv., Mr. Vipin Kumar, Adv., Mr. Vivek Bhojrajka, Adv., Mr. Utkarsh Sharma, AOR, Mr. Himanshu Upadhyay, Adv., Mr. Devesh Partap Singh, Adv., Ms. Bano Deswal, Adv., Mr. R. C. Kaushik, AOR, Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR, Mr. Arun Adlakha, Adv., Mr. Omkar Prasad, Adv., Mr. Sunil Rai, Adv., Ms. Vibha Mahajan, Adv., Ms. Upasana Nath, AOR, Mr. Chitranshul Sinha, Adv., Mr. Anil Agarwal, Adv., Mr. Jaskaran Singh Bhatia, Adv., For M/S. Dua Associates, Ms. Tara V. Ganju, Adv., Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR, M/S. Hingorani Associates, Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR, Mr. Preshit Vilas Surshe, AOR, Mr. Vikas Singh, Sr. Adv., Mr. P.R. Kovilan Poongkuntran, Adv., Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR, Mr. O. P. Bhadani, AOR, Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Adv., Mr. Rajshekhar Rao, Sr. Adv., Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR, Ms. Zehra Khan, Adv., Ms. Kritika Bhardwaj, Adv., Mr. Vinaya .....

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..... kla, AOR, Mr. Avinash B. Amarnath, AOR, Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Adv., Ms. Abhilasha Bharti, Adv., Mr. Sushant Dogra, Adv., Mr. Avinash Sharma, AOR, Mr. Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, AOR, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, AOR, Mr. Ashish Kamat, Adv., Mr. Ajay Vazirani, Adv., Mr. Debmalya Banerjee, Adv., Mr. Ameya Deosthale, Adv., Mr. Kartik Bhatnagar, Adv., Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv., Mr. Vardaan Wanchoo, Adv., Ms. Sharanya Mahimtura, Adv., Ms. Astha Prasad, Adv., For M/S. Karanjawala Co., Ms. Ruby Singh Ahuja, Adv., Ms. Hancy Maini, Adv., Ms. Kritika Sachdeva, Adv., For M/S. Karanjawala Co., Ms. Kumud Lata Das, AOR, Ms. Anita Pandey, Adv., Mr. Ravi Agrawal, Adv., Mr. K. K. Mohan, AOR, Mrs. Gargi Khanna, AOR, Mr. Ashish Virmani, AOR, Mr. Rakesh Mishra, AOR, Mr. Amit Upreti, Adv., Mr. Alok Kumar Pandey, Adv., Mr. Satyam Pandey, Adv., Mr. Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv., Mr. Sandeep Kumar Dwivedi, Adv., Ms. Rakhi Ray, AOR, Mr. Rajesh Singh, AOR, Mr. Rajesh Kumar, AOR, Applicant-in-person, Mr. S. K. Verma, AOR, Mr. Gaurav Sarin, Adv., Mr. Sumit R. Sharma, AOR, Mr. Nitin Saluja, AOR, Mr. Yakesh Anand, Adv., Ms. Sonam Anand, Adv., Ms. Deepshika Sansanwal, Adv., Mr. Santhosh Krishnan, AOR, Ms. Kamakshi S. .....

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..... al, Adv., Mr. Arup Banerjee, AOR, Mr. Sanjeev Sharma, Adv., Ms. Eshna Kumar, Adv., Mr. Udit Gupta, Adv., Mr. Anup Jain, Adv., For Udit Kishan Associates, Mr. Brijendra Singh, Adv., Mr. Shishir Kr. Saxena, Adv., Mr. R.N. Pareek, Adv., Mr. Jagdamba Singh, Adv., Ms. Payal Swarup, Adv., Archana Sharma, Adv., Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR, Ms. Shikha Dixit, in-person, Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv., Mr. Abhay Singh, Adv., Ms. Ankita Agarwal, Adv., Ms. Binu Tamta, Adv., Mr. Dhruv Tamta, AOR, ORDER SLP(Crl) No. 5978-5979/2017 1 The order of this Court dated 9 May 2019 adverts to the status report filed by M/s Grant Thornton, who were appointed as Forensic Auditors which indicates that the auditors were not provided complete access to all electronic records, including those which were in possession of the Chief Financial Officer, Unitech Limited. The lack of cooperation was underscored in the following paragraph of the order of this Court: The status report makes it evident that the forensic auditors have not been provided with complete recourse to the electronic records including those which were in the possession and custody of the Chief Financial Officer(s). In .....

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..... laced on record. 6 The contents of ED s communication dated 16 August 2021 raise serious and disturbing issues. What is of concern to the Court is that the jurisdiction of this Court is sought to be undermined in complicity with the jail staff, if the contents of the letter are true. The second status report elaborates upon several aspects which have been adverted to in the communication to the Commissioner of Police. In this backdrop, we are of the view that the Commissioner of Police must make an immediate enquiry into the contents of the communication dated 16 August 2021 addressed to him by the Directorate of Enforcement so that all the officers and staff of Tihar Central Jail who may be complicit in the violation of law are held accountable. This process should commence immediately and a report should be filed within a period of four weeks on the action which has been taken pursuant to the communication dated 16 August 2021. The enquiry shall be conducted by the Commissioner of Police, Delhi personally and shall not be delegated to any other officer. 7 The contents of the communication dated 16 August 2021 and the material which has come on the record indicate that, desp .....

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