ED arrested Ex-CBI Judge Sudhir Parmar in Money Laundering Case

The Enforcement Directorate has detained Panchkula Special Court Judge Sudhir Parmar on Thursday as part of a money laundering probe related to accusations of suspected bribery . The former judge was apprehended in Gurugram under the terms of the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) 2002.

ED is investigating into a money laundering case relating to a corruption complaint filed by the Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against the CBI Judge who was also in charge of a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court before he was suspended.

ED obtained convincing evidence that Sudhir Parmar was demonstrating “favouritism” to the accused, namely Roop Kumar Bansal, his brother Basant Bansal, and IREO’s Lalit Goyal, in criminal cases brought by the ED and other CBI cases brought by him.

According to the ACB FIR, “as per reliable information, instances of grave misconduct, abuse of official position and demand, and acceptance of undue advantage/ bribe from the accused persons in the cases pending in his court (in the judge case) were noticed.”

However, a plea submitted on July 6 in the Panchkula PMLA court by Parmar’s nephew, Ajay, requesting a transcript of the audio recording and WhatsApp discussion, stated that the ECIR was not founded on facts.

According to the application submitted by Sudhir Parmar’s nephew, the information with the ACB comprises screenshots of WhatsApp chats between Sudhir Parmar and another individual, using his own mobile phone as well as that of his nephew Ajay Parmar.

To inflate the case, the ACB claimed that Rs.5-7 crore were requested for assisting the suspected proprietors of M3M in the ED case. Sudhir Parmar’s allegations of doing favours for Lalit Goyal of IREO or any other individual were untrue and based on assumptions. Lalit Goyal was produced before the court and remanded first to police custody first and then judicial custody. His bail application was also dismissed by Sudhir Parmar.