VIRBHADRA, WIFE GET BAIL IN DA CASE

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh were on Monday granted bail by a special court in connection with a `10 crore disproportionate assets case.

Special Judge Virender Kumar Goyal granted the relief to all the accused on a personal bond of `1 lakh each and one surety of the like amount. The court asked them not to leave the country.

Chennai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached 30 kg gold bars worth `8.56 crore in connection with its probe into a money laundering case against Tamil Nadu sand mining baron J. Sekhar Reddy and his associates, registered post demonetisation. The ED, in March this year, had arrested Reddy and his two alleged associates K. Sreenivasulu and P. Kumar in this case. The agency’s zonal office here issued a provisional attachment order “attaching 30 kg of gold bars worth `8,56,99,350 of Reddy and his associates in connection with the exchange of old notes to new currency notes under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act,” the Enforcement Directorate said in a statement. “On reasonable belief that the gold bars are part of proceeds of crime, the same were provisionally attached,” it said. The ED had attached assets worth `34 crore in this case. Reddy was earlier arrested too in the same case of alleged black money generation post note ban move.