Mittal kin Lalit Goyal denied bail

There seems to be no end to BJP leader Sudhanshu Mittal’s woes as his brother-in-law, Lalit Goyal, who serves as the managing director of the IREO group, has been denied bail and taken into custody by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED).

This action is linked to a money laundering case that is connected to the corruption accusations involving suspended Haryana judicial officer Sudhir Parmar. Mittal’s name appears in the First Information Report (FIR) filed against the suspended Special CBI judge Sudhir Parmar by the Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau under the Prevention of Corruption Act. As per an audio recording included in the FIR, the judge purportedly stated that he had met Mittal.

Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) special court, Panchkula, on Thursday, rejected the bail application moved by the managing director of real estate development company IREO, Lalit Goyal, who is presently in jail in a money laundering case.

Goyal had sought bail on medical grounds. The Enforcement Directorate opposed the bail plea by arguing that after the grant of bail in June 2021, Goyal allegedly destroyed the evidence by deleting data, chats and messages from his phone.