Courtesy-Amar Uajala
A charge sheet has been filed against Sunil Verma, the former international head of Gitanjali Group of Companies by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) along with others in connection with an alleged fraud in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) which involves an amount of around ₹7,080 crores, Mehul Choksi is the promoter of the group and is wanted by the agency as said by the officials on Wednesday.
Among the accused in the supplementary charge sheet filed by the CBI, the director of the Gili and the Nakshatra brands under the group, Dhanesh Seth is also involved as said by two officials of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) namely Sagar Sawant and Sanjay Prasad.
After more than three years of the first charge sheet being filed against fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi and his companies has the supplementary charge sheet being filed and coincides with the legal proceedings against Choksi in a court of Dominica where he was arrested for his illegal entry on 24th May after being mysteriously disappeared from Antigua and Barbuda.
According to Mehul Choksi’s lawyer Vijay Aggarwal, an attempt is made through this supplementary charge sheet to cover up anomalies that the defence had pointed out in the first charge sheet. That said, it is not legally tenable to add section 201 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for the destruction of evidence since a document becomes evident only after its filing in the court and the allegations are of a period much before the First Information Report (FIR), as per him.