Next hearing in Delhi High Court on Sukesh’s plea in election symbol bribery case on July 31

New Delhi (IANS) | The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted more time to alleged swindler Sukesh Chandrasekhar to file a written reply to a plea challenging the framing of charges against him in the 2017 Election Commission bribery case and fixed July 31 for the next hearing. . The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had registered a case in this matter. On March 2, the court had asked the ED and Sukesh Deano to submit written replies. During the hearing on Wednesday, Sukesh’s counsel sought more time to file a written reply.

At the same time, the ED’s advocate told the court that he has given his written reply.

After this, Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma fixed the date of July 31 for the next hearing of the case, giving more time to the alleged swindler to give his reply on the petition.

In April 2017, Sukesh Chandrasekhar learned that AMMK party leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran is eager to get the AIADMK symbol. He went to him posing as IAS officer Shravan Kumar and assured him that he could get the Election Commission to issue an order regarding the allotment of symbols.

Thereafter, an agreement was reached between the two to obtain the order illegally. Dhinakaran gave Rs 2 crore as advance to Sukesh which was sent from Chennai to Delhi through hawala channels on April 15, 2017.

In 2019, the High Court had stayed the hearing in the case against Dhinakaran and Sukesh Chandrasekhar.

The trial court had framed charges against Sukesh in October 2022 under the Money Laundering Act. Earlier that year he was arrested. At that time he was already in jail in another case.

–IANS