On Wednesday, Journalist Rana Ayyub moved the High Court of Delhi against the attachment of funds by the Enforcement Directorate.
Ayyub's plea said that "Provisional attachment has expired after 180 days yet Adjudicating Authority PMLA is continuing with proceedings"
The bench of Justice Yashwant Varma is set to hear this plea today.
ED in the month of Feb had provisionally attached her assets worth Rs 1.77 crore in connection with alleged irregularities in the collection of charitable funds for COVID relief work.
According to the Enforcement Directorate, the investigations made it abundantly clear that the funds were raised in the name of charity in a completely pre-planned & systematic manner & the funds were not utilized completely for the purpose of which the funds were raised.
ED said that the FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint dated Aug 28, 2021, made by Vikas Sankrityayan residence of Ghaziabad, U.P.
ED further stated that the said FIR discloses that Rana Ayyub raised huge amounts running in crores via the 'Ketto' platform (which is an online crowdfunding platform) in three campaigns i.e. Funds for slum dwellers & farmers during April- May 2020, Relief work for Assam, Bihar & Maharashtra during June- September 2020 & Help for Covid-19 impacted people in India during May-June 2021.
The Delhi HC in April had permitted Journalist Rana Ayyub to travel abroad & said there is no cogent reason for presuming that the Petitioner (Rana Ayyub) would not appear before the Investigation Agency & hence, no case is made out for issuing the impugned Lookout Circular (LOC).
The Court had said the impugned LOC is accordingly liable to be set aside as being devoid of merits as well as for infringing the Human right of the Petitioner to travel abroad & to exercise her freedom of speech & expression. For the reasons discussed above, the impugned LOC is set aside & quashed.
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