Jacqueline Fernandez approaches Delhi HC

Jacqueline Fernandez approaches Delhi HC. Jacqueline Fernandez has approached the Delhi High Court seeking the quashing of a criminal case and a supplementary chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged ₹200 crore money laundering case involving the accused conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar.

Although Fernandez has been named as a co-accused in the case filed by the ED, she is designated as a witness in the predicate offence, which is an extortion case registered by the Delhi Police. The ED's FIR originated from the extortion case filed by the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in August of the previous year against Sukesh Chandrasekhar. The charges against him included alleged cheating and extortion of money from Aditi Singh, the wife of the former promoter of Religare Enterprises, Shivinder Mohan Singh.

In her plea to quash the ECIR dated August 8, 2021, the second supplementary complaint dated August 17, 2022, and the subsequent proceedings, Jacqueline Fernandez contends that the evidence presented by the ED establishes her as an innocent victim of a maliciously targeted attack by Sukesh Chandrasekhar.

The plea emphasizes, "There is absolutely no indication of her involvement in aiding him to launder his purportedly ill-gotten wealth." It asserts that she was, in fact, presented as a prosecution witness in the EOW case.

The plea further elaborates that throughout their interactions, Sukesh Chandrasekhar consistently presented himself as a free individual. Jacqueline Fernandez had no means of knowing that the main accused was actually incarcerated, as his conduct always resembled that of a person at liberty, the plea added.