PMLA Adjudicating Authority approves ED attachment order in case against ex-special judge
Enforcement Directorate said on Sunday. The central agency had attached the properties in August last year as part of a provisional order issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The PMLA's adjudicating authority confirmed the said attachment order on January 18, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said in a statement.
The assets were «found to be acquired from proceeds of crime in the case of Sudhir Parmar and others. The attached properties comprise two immovable properties, which were in the name of relatives/friends of the accused ex-PMLA judge Sudhir Parmar». The value of the assets is Rs 7.59 crore, it said.
As per the PMLA, once a provisional attachment order of the ED is confirmed by the adjudicating authority, the agency can move to confiscate it.
Parmar, a former special judge posted in a Panchkula court to try the ED and CBI cases, was arrested by the ED in August as part of a money laundering case linked to charges of bribery against the judicial officer.
The agency had filed two chargesheets in August and October, 2023, in this case in the same special court in Panchkula.
«The judge received illegal gratification to the tune of Rs 5-7 crore from the owners and promoters of IREO Group and M3M Group for extending favours to them,» the ED claimed.
«The said illegal gratification was received by the judge purportedly in the form of loan from Rohit Singh Tomar through his proprietorship firm into the bank accounts of the judge's relatives without any documentation,» the agency claimed.
The money laundering case stems from an FIR filed by the Haryana Police's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in April, 2023, against Sudhir Parmar, his nephew Ajay Parmar and Roop Kumar Bansal, a promoter of the
