{"id":308993,"date":"2019-02-05T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308993"},"modified":"2019-02-05T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:31:33","slug":"delhi-high-court-seeks-eds-response-on-lobbyist-deepak-talwars-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-high-court-seeks-eds-response-on-lobbyist-deepak-talwars-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court seeks ED&#8217;s response on lobbyist Deepak Talwar&#8217;s plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308994 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/deepak-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/deepak-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/deepak.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a plea by alleged lobbyist Deepak Talwar challenging his detention by agencies after he was deported from the UAE last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal issued notice to the ED and directed it to file a response to the petition by February 11.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Talwar, contended that his client was abducted from Dubai and handed over to Indian authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ED counsel Amit Mahajan sought time to respond to the plea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court listed the matter for further hearing on February 12.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Talwar has been charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery and under various other sections of the FCRA for diverting Rs 90.72 crore worth of foreign funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was booked by the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in criminal cases of corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a plea by alleged lobbyist Deepak Talwar challenging his detention by agencies after he was deported from the UAE last week. A bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal issued notice to the ED and directed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[435,10732,1594,2423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308995,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308993\/revisions\/308995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}