Relief for Shilpa Shetty, husband as Bombay High Court bars eviction till decision on appeal against ED notices

A seat of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Prithviraj K Chavan said that if the appellate authority’s determination is adverse oregon unfavourable to them, the duo should beryllium fixed 2 weeks to question further relief.

This came aft the ED told the tribunal that eviction notices would not instrumentality effect until the mates filed their exertion for a enactment connected the notices earlier a tribunal nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

The mates had sought a enactment connected the execution of the notices dated September 27 pending a proceeding connected their petitions.

The ED provisionally attached immovable and movable properties worthy astir Rs 90 crore belonging to Kundra successful April this twelvemonth nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act successful transportation with a Bitcoin concern fraud case, successful which the accused allegedly collected astir Rs 6,600 crore successful Bitcoins successful 2017 from radical aft giving them mendacious promises of a 10 per cent monthly instrumentality successful the cryptocurrency.

The ED had issued eviction notices connected the ground of aggregate FIRs registered by the Maharashtra constabulary and Delhi Police against Variable Tech Pvt Ltd, (late) Amit Bhardwaj, Ajay Bhardwaj, Vivek Bhardwaj, Simpy Bhardwaj, Mahender Bhardwaj, and respective multilevel selling agents.

In their petitions, the mates described arsenic “completely uncalled for” the ED’s notices asking them to vacate their residential premises wrong 10 days. They stated that they had taken steps to entreaty against the confirmation bid of provisional attachment dated April 27.

The mates besides argued that asking them to vacate the premises without the disposal of the entreaty would magnitude to a “travesty of justice” and that determination was nary urgency for vacating the property.