Court rejects Anil Jaisinghani’s bail plea, allows ED to take custody

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Bookie Anil Jaisinghani, arrested in connection with the bribery and blackmailing of Amruta Fadnavis, wife of the Maharashtra deputy chief minister, has had his bail plea dismissed by a special court under the Prevention of Corruption Act..

The court also allowed the Gujarat Enforcement Directorate to take Jaisinghani?s custody in connection with a money laundering probe launched by the agency in January 2015..

It was after the ED launched a probe, the 57-year-old bookie, who has several cases registered against him in Mumbai and Thane in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa as well, had gone into hiding and was evading arrest since then.. He was arrested on March 20 in Gujarat, four days after the Malabar Hill police arrested his 27-year-old daughter Aniksha Jaisinghani for allegedly trying to bribe Amruta Fadnavis...

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