The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday opposed the plea of journalist Rana Ayyub in the Delhi High Court, saying he was involved in a “serious crime”. Let us inform that Rana Ayyub had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the look out circular issued against him. According to the look out circular, journalist Rana Ayyub is not allowed to travel abroad.
The ED alleged before the high court that Ayub was involved in a serious offense involving an amount of over Rs 1 crore. Justice Chandradhari Singh directed Additional Solicitor General S. V. Raju to put some facts on record and fixed April 4 for the next hearing in the matter.
Ayub was detained by the Bureau of Immigration at the Mumbai airport on March 29 when he was on his way to London to attend some journalistic events. He approached the High Court challenging the LoC issued against him and sought quashing of any direction barring him from traveling abroad.
Additional Solicitor General and ED’s counsel Amit Mahajan argued that the money was received not only in dollars but also in rupees and it is a case of more than one crore rupees and some fake bills were submitted by him and related to relief work. Money was embezzled.
The journalist, in her petition, through advocates Vrinda Grover and Sautik Banerjee, said that on March 29 she would attend events about the global problem of cyber attacks on women journalists as well as deliver a speech on the state of journalism in India. Arrived at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai to go to London.
The plea said that he was detained at the airport and Immigration Bureau officials told him that they had instructions from the ED not to allow him to board the plane and that his passport had a ‘cancelled’ stamp. Was put
Later, the ED also emailed him summons under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, asking him to appear before the agency on April 1, it said. Grover argued that Ayub was cooperating in the investigation.