ED files chargesheet against HP ex-cm’s son Vikramaditya
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a chargesheet in a Delhi court against Virbhadra Singh’s son Vikramaditya in a money laundering case also involving the former Himachal Pradesh chief minister. Vikramaditya is Congress MLA from Shimla.
Special judge Arvind Kumar fixed the matter for consideration on July 24, when he will decide on whether to take cognisance of the final report.
The chargesheet, filed by special public prosecutors Nitesh Rana and NK Matta, also named Managing Director of Tarani Infrastructure Vakamulla Chandrasekhar and one Ram Prakash Bhatia as an accused.
Both Chandrasekhar and Bhatia are also an accused in a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case related to the matter, along with Virbhadra, his wife Pratibha Singh and others.
Besides 83-year-old Virbhadra and his 62-year-old wife, the others named in the ED chargesheet, filed through advocate AR Aditya, are Universal Apple Associate owner Chunni Lal Chauhan, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) agent Anand Chauhan and two other co-accused Prem Raj and Lawan Kumar Roach. Chauhan, arrested on July 9, 2016, by the ED under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, was granted bail on January 2 in the case.
In a separate case filed by the CBI in relation to the matter, the former Himachal Pradesh chief minister, his wife and Chauhan were chargesheeted along with others.
The couple, who have not been arrested so far in any of the two cases, and the other accused, are facing trial in the CBI case.
The other accused in the CBI case are Chunni Lal Chauhan, stamp paper vendor Joginder Singh Ghalta, managing director of Tarani Infrastructure Vakamulla Chandrasekhar, and co-accused Lawan Kumar Roach, Prem Raj and Ram Prakash Bhatia.
The CBI had claimed that Virbhadra had amassed assets worth around ₹10 crore which were disproportionate to his total income during his tenure as a Union minister.
› The ED chargesheet against me is politically motivated. I have full faith in the judiciary and ultimately the truth will win. VIKRAMADITYA SINGH, Shimla MLA