Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been summoned in the Panama Papers leak case. The ED has summoned him for questioning. After this Aishwarya reached the Delhi office of ED. Recently, ED had also summoned Abhishek Bachchan in this case. Before this, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been called twice. A special investigation team probing the Panama Papers leaks was requested. ED had summoned Aishwarya in the FEMA case. The summon was sent to the Bachchan family’s residence Pratiksha on 9 November. Reply has been sought in 15 days. Aishwarya replied to the ED via email. The SIT, which is probing the case, includes ED, Income Tax and other agencies. The names of 300 Indians are included in this list. Apart from Aishwarya, the names of Amitabh Bachchan and Ajay Devgan were also included in this.
In this the names of former Solicitor General of the country and Supreme Court lawyer Harish Salve, fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, most wanted criminal Iqbal Mirchi were also included, due to which the matter reached the Supreme Court as well. The central government had then constituted a multi-agency group on the issue. These include CBDT, RBI, ED and FIU. The MAG was investigating all the names and reporting to the SIT set up to probe black money and the central government.