By PTI
MUMBAI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Monday took Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut to a government hospital for check up, after which he will be produced in a special court here.
Raut, who spent the night in ED’s south Mumbai office after his arrest in a money laundering case, was taken to the hospital after 12.30 pm.
He was seen waving to media personnel gathered outside the agency’s office.
ED arrested Raut on Sunday in a case linked to alleged irregularities in the redevelopment of a Mumbai chawl after conducting a nine-hour search at his residence, during which Rs 11.5 lakh in cash was seized, officials said.
Raut, 60, was arrested after over six hours of questioning at the ED’s zonal office in south Mumbai’s Ballard Estate shortly after Sunday midnight.
He was taken into custody at 12:05 am on Monday under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act as he was not cooperating in the probe, the officials claimed.
The Rajya Sabha MP of the Sena, led by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, will be produced before a special PMLA court in Mumbai later in the day, where the ED will seek his custody.
A team of ED had on Sunday reached his residence in Mumbai’s Bhandup area, where they conducted a search, questioned Raut, and by evening, took him for questioning at the agency’s south Mumbai office.
Raut’s arrest is an attempt to divert the anger brewing against Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari’s remarks on Mumbai, party leader Arvind Sawant claimed on Monday.
He said protests will be held in the state spontaneously against the arrest of Raut, a vocal critic of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Centre.
“The Enforcement Directorate’s action is to divert the anger brewing after the comments made by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari against Maharashtra.
We are not fools who do not understand this diversionary action,” said Sawant, the Lok Sabha MP from Mumbai South.
Sanjay Raut was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate probing a money laundering case after Sunday midnight.
Koshyari had triggered a row with his remarks that if Gujaratis and Rajasthanis are moved out of Maharashtra, especially from Mumbai and Thane, “you will be left with no money and Mumbai will not remain a financial capital”.
He later clarified that his remarks were misconstrued.
MUMBAI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Monday took Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut to a government hospital for check up, after which he will be produced in a special court here.
Raut, who spent the night in ED’s south Mumbai office after his arrest in a money laundering case, was taken to the hospital after 12.30 pm.
He was seen waving to media personnel gathered outside the agency’s office.
ED arrested Raut on Sunday in a case linked to alleged irregularities in the redevelopment of a Mumbai chawl after conducting a nine-hour search at his residence, during which Rs 11.5 lakh in cash was seized, officials said.
Raut, 60, was arrested after over six hours of questioning at the ED’s zonal office in south Mumbai’s Ballard Estate shortly after Sunday midnight.
He was taken into custody at 12:05 am on Monday under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act as he was not cooperating in the probe, the officials claimed.
The Rajya Sabha MP of the Sena, led by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, will be produced before a special PMLA court in Mumbai later in the day, where the ED will seek his custody.
A team of ED had on Sunday reached his residence in Mumbai’s Bhandup area, where they conducted a search, questioned Raut, and by evening, took him for questioning at the agency’s south Mumbai office.
Raut’s arrest is an attempt to divert the anger brewing against Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari’s remarks on Mumbai, party leader Arvind Sawant claimed on Monday.
He said protests will be held in the state spontaneously against the arrest of Raut, a vocal critic of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Centre.
“The Enforcement Directorate’s action is to divert the anger brewing after the comments made by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari against Maharashtra.
We are not fools who do not understand this diversionary action,” said Sawant, the Lok Sabha MP from Mumbai South.
Sanjay Raut was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate probing a money laundering case after Sunday midnight.
Koshyari had triggered a row with his remarks that if Gujaratis and Rajasthanis are moved out of Maharashtra, especially from Mumbai and Thane, “you will be left with no money and Mumbai will not remain a financial capital”.
He later clarified that his remarks were misconstrued.
