A co-accused in the money laundering case had approached the High Court to challenge a trial court decision turning down a plea by the accused seeking access to documents not relied upon by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the purpose of the trial.
The trial is yet to commence. The lower court has been hearing arguments on charges to be framed against the accused.
ED has prosecuted Bhushan Power and Steel on charges of money laundering and has attached its several assets.
The trial court had in December last year ordered that the accused will be entitled only to a “list” of unrelied documents and refused to direct the federal agency to supply the “actual documents” not relied upon for the trial.
Aggrieved, the accused petitioned the Delhi High Court and contended that “documents which are relied or unrelied by the investigating agencies are needed to be supplied along with list of such documents”.
Citing a judgement passed by the SC in November last year, advocate Vijay Aggarwal, counsel for the accused, argued that the top court had held that accused/respondent “can visit the malkhana of CBI and can inspect the documents which are unrelied by the CBI”.
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