TALWAR SENT TO JUDICIAL CUSTODY

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court sent alleged corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar to 14 days’ judicial custody after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said it did not need him for police custody. The special public prosecutor for ED, Nitesh Rana, argued for his judicial custody on the grounds that “he is a politically influential man”. ED brought Talwar to India in January-end and he has been in police custody which ended Thursday. He was deported from the UAE and arrested on the allegations that he acted as a middleman in negotiations to favour foreign private airlines causing the loss to Air India.