Amrapali

Noida and Greater Noida police too was asked to participate in the searches.

If the documents are bulky, they shall be kept in a room and a key handed over to the forensic auditors. The police and the three directors will visit the statutory auditors to the company to take possession of the documents. The court fixed October 24 for the next hearing of the case

SC also restrained all eight directors of Amrapali, including the three sent to police custody, from leaving the country. Three ex-directors, Rakesh Mahajan, Iftikhar Ahmed, and Pallavi Mishra, were also stopped from travelling abroad. Amrapali’s statutory auditors, present directors and ex-directors were ordered to surrender their passports to the station house officer, Tilak Marg. The court clarified that its order did not amount to formal arrest of the directors and also that no nominee director will face the travel ban.

The court also clarified that the order did not deal with any criminal case and that the police was free to carry on its investigation if it receives any complaints. “Nothing comes in the way of Delhi Police, Economic Offences Wing, to make any criminal investigation in any case which is required to be made. Let the investigation be made”, it ruled.

This was done after the Economic Offences Wing sought permission to become a party to the case. The wing said the court’s March 27 order, saying that no coercive action should be taken in connection with Amrapali case, was coming in the way of