PTI, NEW DELHI: A Delhi court today sent journalist Upendra Rai to 14-day judicial custody in a money laundering case related to alleged extortion and dubious financial transactions.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat sent Rai to jail after the Enforcement Directorate said it did not require him for further custodial interrogation.
Delhi-based scribe Rai, who was present in the court, was yesterday sent to a day’s ED custody. He has already undergone 15 days of custodial interrogation.
Special public prosecutor N K Matta, appearing for the ED, moved an application in the court saying Rai be sent to jail as his custody was not needed anymore.
Yesterday, Rai had denied before the court all the allegations levelled against him by the agency.
The scribe submitted that he had started his career at the age of 26 and worked with big media houses.
The agency had claimed before the court that “top secret documents” were recovered from Rai’s possession and the ED was trying to find out how he procured them. It alleged that the accused had extorted money from various persons claiming he had information against them as he was a journalist.
Thousands of crores of rupees was extorted, the ED has alleged.
