Uddhav Thackeray, the head of the Shiv Sena, was not permitted to visit Sanjay Raut at the Arthur Road Jail on Wednesday. In accordance with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the Shiv Sena leader was detained by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on August 1 in relation to alleged financial irregularities in the reconstruction of the Patra Chawl (row tenement) in suburban Goregaon.
The jail authorities said that Uddhav Thackeray would have to ask the court for permission in order to meet with Sanjay Raut after denying him permission to do so. They will have to meet in the same way as regular convicts, the authorities said in response to Uddhav’s request to meet Raut in the jailor’s room.
The court added an additional 14 days to Raut’s judicial custody on Tuesday. Now, September 19 has been set aside for the hearing.
The suspected financial irregularities in the reconstruction of the Patra “chawl” and associated financial transactions involving Raut’s wife and acquaintances are the subject of the ED inquiry. The Shiv Sena president and former chief minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray, close ally Raut, has denied any misconduct and dubbed the ED case against him “false.”
n link with alleged financial irregularities in the reconstruction of the Patra Chawl in suburban Goregaon, Raut was detained by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on August 1.
The Shiv Sena leader was first kept by the ED, but on August 8 was transferred to judicial custody for a period of 14 days. Raut’s custody was initially prolonged by a special PMLA court until September 5, and it has since been extended once more, this time until September 19.
The Shiv Sena leader was taken into custody on August 1 after ED agents stormed his home on July 31. He had been held and questioned for several hours.
