Mumbai: Former Minister of Maharashtra’s home annealed Deshmukh on Thursday said it would appear in front of Ed, who had called him in connection with the probe into the case of money laundering, “after the legal process was complete”.
Deshmukh in a statement claimed “the Supreme Court had received his request on Ed and it would soon be heard”.
SC on Monday refused to provide interim assistance to the NCP leader Deshmukh, who sought protection from coercive actions in connection with the money laundering case submitted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The three judges headed by justice Am Khanwilkar, hearing a collection of applications including those who challenge the constitutional validity of certain provisions of the prevention of money laundering Law (PMLA), Desmukh said in Liberty accessing it under the law.
Deshmukh in his statement said the APEX court on Monday allowed him to move lower trials as well as legitimate solutions under the CRPC (criminal procedure code).
“The legal process has begun and I will appear before ED after the legal process is complete.
I will work with Ed.
I always follow high standards in all my socio-political lives,” he said.
Ed had previously issued a letter to Deshmukh in connection with a criminal case listed under PMLA related to the alleged RS 100 Crore Briber-Cum-Extortion Racket which led to the resignation of the 71 NCP leader this year in April this year.
Deshmukh was passed before Ed for the first time on Wednesday and has stated that he received another way for “legitimate drugs” for the protection of his freedom.
He had a three-page reply to the case investigation officer through his lawyer, said the Supreme Court had “made it open to me to take another way for all the appropriate solutions available under the CRPC including the submission of petition petitions”.
The NCP leader said he took another way for legal treatment for the protection of his freedom “in one or two days”.
Deshmukh also said he was a law-obedient law “when he asked the agent to record his statement through electronic media, up to the time” the appropriate order was passed by the court “case ed against Deshmukh and the others registered after the CBI had submitted a corruption case related to the minimum accusation Rs 100 Crore made by former Police Commissioner Mumbai Param Bir Singh.
In his letter to the Chairman of the Minister of Uddhav Thackeray after he was expelled from the Police Commissioner Post, Singh had alleged that Dishmukh asked the Mumbai police assistant who was suspended by Police Inspector Sachin aborted to squeeze more than bars and restaurants in the city.
Deshmukh, who resigned from his position in April after the accusation, had repeatedly denied mistakes.
Ed has arrested the personal secretary and Desthmukh personal assistant after that raids against them and NCP leaders in Mumbai and Nagpur.